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MELBOURNE, Australia – Tim Clark of South Africa shot a 2-under 70 on Friday at Huntingdale to take a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Australian Masters.

Clark had a two-round total of 7-under 137, a stroke ahead of Australians Anthony Summers, who shot a 68, and Michael Sim, who had a 66.

Seven players were one stroke further back at 5 under, including former winner Robert Allenby, who picked up five shots on the back nine for a second-round 66. Another in that group was Australian Aaron Townsend, who had a second-round 64 after completing his first-round 75 on Friday morning.

John Daly shot a 73 after an opening 76 and missed the cut at 5 over. He’ll remain Down Under to play in next week’s Australian PGA at Coolum in Queensland state.

“I had a couple of eagle opportunities and hit horrible putts, and three-putted one of them,” Daly said.

The field in the joint European PGA and Australasian PGA tour event took full advantage of calm, quiet conditions on Friday on a course softened by overnight rain. On Thursday, a storm and hail caused a three-hour suspension in play, forcing 39 golfers to complete their rounds on Friday morning.

Clark said he failed to take advantage of the easier conditions.

“I had a lot more birdie chances and with the greens being softer it was easier to get it closer, and I just didn’t make anything,” Clark said. “I made one putt of about eight feet for birdie on No. 1 which was my back nine, and that was it all day.”

Summers, who finished 10th in last year’s Masters, just returned from Europe, where he missed qualifying for his European PGA Tour card by one stroke.

“When I hit a bad one, I got away with it, and when I hit the good ones I made the most of them, so it was a good day,” said Summers. “I get to play the weekend, that’s a great bonus.”

Townsend completed the final five holes of his first round on Friday morning, and bogeyed four of them. But after a short break for some tea and toast, he had nine birdies and one bogey in his second round to equal the Huntingdale course record.

“I’ve sort of got a feel for it at the moment,” Townsend said.

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Scores with relation to par from the second round of the Australian Masters, played Nov. 28 at the par-72 Huntingdale Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia (Note: a-amateur):

1. Tim Clark	67-70--137		-7
2. Michael Sim	72-66--138		-6
2. Anthony Summers	70-68--138		-6
4. Robert Allenby	73-66--139		-5
4. Jamie Donaldson	72-67--139		-5
4. Dave Horsey	71-68--139		-5
4. Rod Pampling	71-68--139		-5
4. Aaron Townsend	75-64--139		-5
4. Steve Webster	71-68--139		-5
4. Michael Wright	69-70--139		-5
11. Marcus Fraser	73-67--140		-4
11. Nathan Green	72-68--140		-4
11. Ashley Hall	73-67--140		-4
11. Scott Hend	67-73--140		-4
11. Scott Laycock	73-67--140		-4
11. a-Danny Lee	71-69--140		-4
11. Johan Skold	72-68--140		-4
11. Daniel Wardrop	69-71--140		-4
19. Marc Leishman	71-70--141		-3
19. Ewan Porter	70-71--141		-3
19. Brett Rumford	71-70--141		-3
22. Steven Bowditch	72-70--142		-2
22. Tony Carolan	74-68--142		-2
22. Greg Chalmers	72-70--142		-2
22. Daniel Chopra	70-72--142		-2
22. Adam Crawford	71-71--142		-2
22. David Mckenzie	72-70--142		-2
22. James Morrison	73-69--142		-2
22. Peter Senior	70-72--142		-2
22. Joel Sjoholm	74-68--142		-2
31. Steve Alker	75-68--143		-1
31. Michael Curtain	72-71--143		-1
31. Marcus Higley	72-71--143		-1
31. Bradley Hughes	72-71--143		-1
31. Peter Lonard	72-71--143		-1
31. Michael Long	72-71--143		-1
31. Wade Ormsby	72-71--143		-1
31. Andre Stolz	73-70--143		-1
31. Scott Strange	75-68--143		-1
40. Phillip Archer	73-71--144		E
40. Aaron Black	70-74--144		E
40. Scott Draper	73-71--144		E
40. Simon Griffiths	70-74--144		E
40. Rob Harris	72-72--144		E
40. Steven Jeppesen	74-70--144		E
40. Steven Jones	74-70--144		E
40. James Mclean	75-69--144		E
40. Alexander Noren	73-71--144		E
40. Martin Rominger	76-68--144		E
40. Craig Scott	72-72--144		E
40. Vernon Sexton-Finck	70-74--144		E
40. Craig Spence	72-72--144		E
40. Andrew Tschudin	74-70--144		E
40. Daniel Vancsik	74-70--144		E
40. Martin Wiegele	73-71--144		E
40. Tim Wilkinson	72-72--144		E
40. Tim Wise	71-73--144		E
58. Antti Ahokas	74-71--145	+	1
58. Anthony Brown	69-76--145	+	1
58. Martin Erlandsson	74-71--145	+	1
58. Oliver Fisher	72-73--145	+	1
58. Matthew Griffin	74-71--145	+	1
58. Ryan Haller	76-69--145	+	1
58. Brad Lamb	73-72--145	+	1
58. Dale Marmion	76-69--145	+	1
58. Mahal Pearce	75-70--145	+	1
58. Cameron Percy	74-71--145	+	1
58. Alexandre Rocha	77-68--145	+	1
58. Wilhelm Schauman	76-69--145	+	1
58. Lee Slattery	78-67--145	+	1
• • •
Missed the cut
71. Kurt Barnes	73-73--146	+	2
71. Scott Barr	75-71--146	+	2
71. Adam Blyth	75-71--146	+	2
71. Steve Collins	78-68--146	+	2
71. Carlos Del Moral	76-70--146	+	2
71. Chris Downes	68-78--146	+	2
71. Adam Groom	73-73--146	+	2
71. Ryan Howison	72-74--146	+	2
71. a-Jin Jeong	75-71--146	+	2
71. Brad Kennedy	72-74--146	+	2
71. Jochen Lupprian	76-70--146	+	2
71. Aron Price	75-71--146	+	2
71. Heath Reed	74-72--146	+	2
71. Jarmo Sandelin	73-73--146	+	2
71. Paul Sheehan	70-76--146	+	2
71. Nigel Stivala	71-75--146	+	2
71. Sam Walker	77-69--146	+	2
88. Shane Baxter	74-73--147	+	3
88. Stuart Davis	76-71--147	+	3
88. Andrew Dodt	71-76--147	+	3
88. Martin Doyle	71-76--147	+	3
88. Kim Felton	77-70--147	+	3
88. Chris Gaunt	80-67--147	+	3
88. Mark Laskey	75-72--147	+	3
88. Jarrod Moseley	72-75--147	+	3
88. Paul Nilbrink	73-74--147	+	3
88. Peter O’Malley	77-70--147	+	3
88. Craig Parry	76-71--147	+	3
88. John Senden	75-72--147	+	3
100. Stuart Appleby	74-74--148	+	4
100. Birgir Hafthorsson	75-73--148	+	4
100. Lasse Jensen	75-73--148	+	4
100. Jarrod Lyle	76-72--148	+	4
100. Matthew Mills	75-73--148	+	4
105. John Daly	76-73--149	+	5
105. Gary Emerson	73-76--149	+	5
105. Rory Hie	76-73--149	+	5
105. Mikko Ilonen	75-74--149	+	5
105. Ross B Jones	75-74--149	+	5
105. Bronson La'Cassie	77-72--149	+	5
105. Gareth Paddison	75-74--149	+	5
105. Alistair Presnell	75-74--149	+	5
105. Nathan Smith	75-74--149	+	5
105. Peter Wilson	78-71--149	+	5
115. Mitchell Brown	77-73--150	+	6
115. Ryan C Carter	77-73--150	+	6
115. Sebastian Gracia-Grout	79-71--150	+	6
115. Ryan Haywood	77-73--150	+	6
115. Gareth Maybin	77-73--150	+	6
115. Andrew Tampion	78-72--150	+	6
115. Manny Villegas	75-75--150	+	6
115. Euan Walters	78-72--150	+	6
123. Matthew Ballard	78-73--151	+	7
123. Steven Jeffress	77-74--151	+	7
123. Soren Juul	80-71--151	+	7
123. Simon Khan	75-76--151	+	7
123. Jason Norris	82-69--151	+	7
123. Terry Pilkadaris	78-73--151	+	7
123. Mark Purser	78-73--151	+	7
123. Richie Ramsay	82-69--151	+	7
123. Gary Simpson	76-75--151	+	7
132. Michael Brennan	75-77--152	+	8
132. Peter Fowler	81-71--152	+	8
132. Doug Holloway	83-69--152	+	8
132. Lee James	78-74--152	+	8
132. Josh Lane	75-77--152	+	8
132. Andrew Martin	77-75--152	+	8
138. Lee Corfield	79-74--153	+	9
138. Henrik Engvall	76-77--153	+	9
138. Rick Kulacz	79-74--153	+	9
141. David Diaz	78-76--154	+	10
141. Nicky Harris	79-75--154	+	10
141. Matthew Millar	78-76--154	+	10
144. Darren Beck	75-80--155	+	11
144. Marcus Cain	79-76--155	+	11
144. Michael Harwood	77-78--155	+	11
144. Shiv Kapur	78-77--155	+	11
144. Richard Lee	76-79--155	+	11
149. Mathew Holten	74-82--156	+	12
149. Brett A Taylor	79-77--156	+	12
151. Josh Geary	81-77--158	+	14
152. Paul Donahoo	78-81--159	+	15
152. Terry Price	80-79--159	+	15
154. David Lutterus	80-80--160	+	16
155. Charles Kares	89-76--165	+	21

Posted: 11/28/2008

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