DP World Tour : DS Automobiles 83' Open d'Italia Leaderboard Tee Times
Joaquin Niemann took a two-stroke lead at the midway point of the DS Automobiles 83° Open d'Italia after a second successive round in the low 60s.
The Chilean followed up his opening 64 with a 63 to reach -15 at Circolo Golf Torino.
Angel Ayora also shot 63 to lie second on -13 while Niemann's playing partner Matt Wallace went one better with a 62 to advance to -11 and put himself in position to take home the US$40,000 Nexo Course Record Award on Sunday.
Niemann started with six pars from the tenth before his round sparked into life, with three straight birdies into the turn followed by an eagle after a perfect approach at the first.
Further birdies at the fourth, seventh and ninth left him with a 63, one better than his first round, and would have equalled the course record - set by Edoardo Molinari on Thursday - but for Wallace's efforts.
Niemann said: "I knew going out in the morning early, with good greens, I needed to go kind of low in the beginning and put a score on
"It was a little bit of a slower start than yesterday and then I got it going on hole 15, I think it was. Then I made a nice eagle also on the first. That helped me out to get that momentum and kind of take off a little bit.
"I hit great shots. I hit a lot of fairways at the beginning of the round, hit good iron shots, had a few lip out. I feel like I could have made two or three putts there but the ball just didn't go in like it did on the rest of the holes.
"It’s a fun course. When you're in the fairway, you're able to score pretty low because the greens are pretty soft. If you are good with your numbers, with the irons, you can go at every pin and you're pretty sure it's going to stay close to the hole. It's fun. A lot of birdies.
Tom Vaillant is yet to drop a shot this week as he and Eugenio Chacarra ended the day alongside Wallace on -11.
Fellow Frenchman Romain Langasque was alone on -10 while Molinari was -9 after a round of 70, tied for seventh with Jorge Campillo, Angel Hidalgo, Joakim Lagergren and Frederic Lacroix.
Another home favourite, Guido Migliozzi, was a shot further back at -8 while amateur Filippo Ponzano, whose second straight round of 69 included a hole-out eagle two at the tenth, was also among seven Italians to make the cut.
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