Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow and Lucknow's Sanjay Kumar fired matching scores of six-under 64 to share the spoils after the second round of the Rs. 1 crore CG Open, the penultimate event of the 2014 PGTI Super Series, at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club here today.
Chouhan and Sanjay were joint leaders at the halfway stage as their total scores moved to 10-under-130. Mukesh Kumar, another Mhow-based professional, occupied third place at eight-under-132 after carding a bogey-free 65.
Delhi's Rashid Khan, who recently won his second title on the Asian Tour, came up with a phenomenal seven-under 63 today to match the course record at the BPGC.
Rashid now shares the course record with Angad Cheema, Md Zamal Hossain Mollah, Ashok Kumar, Rafick Ali Mollah, Karanjit Singh Sandhu and Gurbaaz Mann.
Om Prakash (66-64), currently placed fifth in the Rolex Rankings and a winner on the PGTI this year, climbed from overnight tied fifth to the top thanks to a round of seven birdies and a lone bogey.
Om Prakash, who has been battling fever over the last two days, began well in round two with a birdie on the opening hole. A poor tee shot on the fourth led to him dropping a shot but the 28-year-old rallied with three 10-feet birdie conversions on the sixth, 10th and 14th.
Om Prakash ended the day on a high with a flurry of birdies on the last three holes. He produced some great wedge shots on the 16th and 18th and hit an excellent tee shot on the 17th to set up a short birdie putt.
Sanjay Kumar (66-64), the winner in Shillong few weeks back, also fired a 64 today to climb from tied fifth to joint first. He made an amazing eight birdies against two bogeys. His longest birdie putt of the day was a 20-footer on the sixth. He also capitalized with birdies on three of the four par-5s, the 16th, 18th and first. He was in with an eagle opportunity on all three occasions.
Lucknow's Vijay Kumar and defending champion Chikkarangappa of Bangalore shot scores of 65 and 66 respectively to be one shot behind Mukesh in tied fourth.
First round leader Randhir Singh Ghotra slipped to tied 13th after a 72 on day two.
The cut fell at one-over-141 and sixty professionals made the cut.
