The senior professionals and amateurs really showed their class as just two pairings narrowly failed to equal or break par on the par-72 course.
South African Bertus Smit and amateur Chris Morris were the overnight leaders following a ten-under-par score of 62.
Six pairings returned 63s. Scotland’s Bill Longmuir and amateur John Billington (La Moye) are in second place after winning a countback of the back nine holes where they took 29 strokes.
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