England's Graeme Storm and Steve Webster are one shot clear of the field at the halfway stage of the Moravia Silesia Open.
Webster overcomes lost ball to top leaderboard
England's Graeme Storm and Steve Webster are one shot clear of the field at the halfway stage of the Moravia Silesia Open in the Czech Republic.
Storm, the 2007 French Open champion from Hartlepool, shot his second successive 68 at the Prosper Golf Resort in Celadná after picking up four birdies to be out in 32.
Playing the back nine first, he also picked up a birdie at the short sixth to get to nine-under, but his only dropped shot of the day at the par four eighth meant he shared the overnight lead with Webster.
Webster - a former Italian Open and Portugal Masters champion - overcame a lost ball on the 14th (his fifth) to add a 70 to his opening 66.
"It was only 10 yards off the fairway, but it was early and there was no marshall there," he said after taking a double bogey six. "That's life."
Compatriots Sam Little and John Bickerton are only one off the pace, along with Holland's Maarten Lafeber and Robert-Jan Derksen, as well as Spaniard Ignacio Garrido.
First round leader Tano Goya from Argentina could not come close to repeating his opening 65, taking 10 shots more and finishing in a tie for 14th at four-under.
Hat-trick
Bristol 21-year-old Chris Wood, third in the Open two weeks ago, moved to five under with a hat-trick of birdies from the 11th and then another at the first, but bogeyed the third and fourth for a 70 and three-under halfway total.
Wood missed last week's SAS Masters in Sweden after hurting his wrist in rough at Turnberry.
"I had an MRI and it was swollen around the joints and ligaments, but the cartilage was fine. That was the worry," he said.
"I didn't hit a ball for five or six days and coming here my game felt a bit ropey. People said they were surprised to see me here, but three weeks without playing would have been a bit too much before the US PGA."
Course designer Miguel Angel Jimenez is one shot further back, as is 49-year-old South African David Frost in his last event on the circuit before going off to prepare for his Champions Tour debut in the United States in September.
