Elliot Saltman seven shots off the
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pace on Hi5 Pro Tour last day
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FROM THE SPANISH Hi5 PRO TOUR WEBSITE
Local Spaniard Ignacio Sanchez Palencia is the co leader on five-under-par 139 alongside Swedens Bjorn Pettersson after day two of the Hi5 Pro Tour's Altorreal Open.
Ignacio played a two-under-par 70 to close the gap on Round 1 leader, Bjorn Pettersson in almost perfect scoring conditions.
Close on their heels going into the final round in joint third position are England's Alex Belt , Sweden's Fredrick Hammarberg , Iceland's Stefan Mar Stefansson and Spain's Dani Alonso.
Just one shot further back are current order of merit leader Matt Evans (66 low round of the day), last week's Senior winner Gary Wolstenholme (pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency), this week playing off the back tees against the field, and Spain's Carlos Aguilar Quesada.
An exciting final round is expected with no fewer than 13 players lying within four shots of the leaders in the chase for the Hi5 Pro Tour's Altorreal title.
The odds are against a Saltman winning for the third event in a row. Last week's winner Elliot Saltman, who followed in the footsteps of his younger brother, Lloyd, is seven strokes off the pace with 18 holes to go. Stranger things have happened!
Second lowest round of the day was produced by the much improving English amateur Richard Carter.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
139 PETTERSSON, Bjorn (Sweden) 68 71, SANCHEZ PALENCIA, Ignacio (Spain) 69 70.
140 BELT, Alex (England) 71 69, HAMMARBERG, Fredrik (Sweden) 70 70, STEFANSSON, Stefan Mar (Iceland) 70 70, ALONSO JANSSEN, Dani (Spain) 70 70.
141 EVANS, Matthew (England) 75 66, AQUILAR QUESADA, Carlos (Spain) 70 71, WOLSTENHOLME, Gary (England) 73 68.
143 SVENSSON, Robert (Sweden) 73 70, JOHNSON, James (England) 70 73, DE LOPE, Javier 74 69, O'HANLON, Paul (Ireland) 73 70.
146 CLAPP, Brad (Canada) 72 74, SALTMAN, Elliot (Scotland) 74 72.
147 HEMMING, Stuart (England) 74 73, COLLINS, Michael (Ireland) 73 74, CARTER, Richard (England) (am) 80 67, FIHN, Felix (Sweden) 69 78.
148 SANDBERG, Daniel 78 70, WEISSER, Dominik 78 70.
149 MCGEE, Ruaidhri (Ireland) 76 73.
150 HANSEN, Stian 77 73.
151 STREET, Ryan (England) 75 76.
152 SHIELDS, Stephen (England) 73 79, BARRY-WALSH, Edward (England) 78 74.
153 KING, Gary (England) 75 78, SALTMAN, Zack (Scotland) 77 76.
154 HOUSBY, James (England) 75 79, THORSTENSEN, Vidar 74 80, BARBA MORENO, Sergio 78 76.
155 HAMER, Martyn (England) 76 79.
156 BLANCO GARCIA, Pedro (Spain) 79 77.
157 MORTON, Alex (England) 79 78, MARTENS, Caroline 79 78.
159 LUND, Stian 78 81.
162 COLLINS, Ronan (Ireland) 79 83, STAAL, Tjeerd 84 78.
164 FRIIS, Christer 87 77, SOENDBERG, Casper 82 82.
165 HULTMAN, Joacim 83 82.
170 CAPAUL, Marcel 85 85.
176 VERA RUIZ, Borja (am) 89 87.
188 DON, Jaly (am) 96 92.
206 PALTTO, Jan Skoglund 106 100