US Tour: Australia's Aaron Baddeley eagled the final hole for a 67 to hold the early clubhouse lead in the Heritage Classic second round at Hilton Head, South Carolina.
The 25-year-old, chasing his first victory on the PGA Tour, recovered from an ugly triple-bogey seven at the eighth before finishing at nine-under 133.
Late in the day, Jim Furyk, Vaughn Taylor, Geoff Ogilvy and Billy Mayfair had all joined Baddeley at nine under, with several holes to play.
But Darren Clarke struggled for a second day, and slumped to six over par and out of the tournament.
Clarke, who threw away a chance of victory on the 72nd hole of this course last year, struggled to make any headway in his attempt to salvage something after a poor, five-over-par opening round of 76.
The Ulsterman birdied both of the par fives on the front nine, the 502-yard second and the 530-yard fifth. That took him to the turn in 32 and at three over for the tournament knew he had to improve considerably, but when he bogeyed the 444-yard 10th the projected even-par cut looked further away than ever.
And his remote chances of surviving ended when he followed another bogey at the 13th by hitting his tee-shot into the lake in front of the 14th green.
Fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell was also heading home after adding a 75 to a 70 to leave him three over.
Paul McGinley also looked likely to miss the weekend after going out in two-over-par to be two shots outside the projected cut.
England's Brian Davis looked well set for the weekend after he birdied the par-four first and the fifth to move to four under for the tournament.
He too dropped a shot at the 10th, and a further bogey at the 430-yard 12th dropped him back to his two-under starting point of earlier in the day. He finished on three under.
HERITAGE (at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina) - Completed second round scores (US unless stated): 133 - Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 66 67, 134 - Fred Funk 68 66, 135 - Ben Crane 67 68, 136 - Robert Allenby (Aus) 70 66, JB Holmes 67 69, Jose Coceres (Arg) 69 67, 137 - Billy Andrade 68 69, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 67 70, 138 - Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 67 71, Corey Pavin 69 69, Lucas Glover 70 68, 139 - Rod Pampling (Aus) 70 69, Justin Leonard 70 69, Chris DiMarco 69 70, Shaun Micheel 71 68, Brian Davis (Eng) 69 70, 140 - Briny Baird 71 69, Scott Verplank 69 71, Robert Gamez 70 70, Bernhard Langer (Ger) 70 70, Bob Tway 70 70, 141 - Paul Stankowski 71 70, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 71 70, Joey Sindelar 69 72, Heath Slocum 71 70, Stewart Cink 70 71, Justin Rose (Eng) 71 70, Doug Barron 72 69, 142 - Ryuji Imada (Jpn) 73 69, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 73 69, Peter Jacobsen 72 70, Steve Flesch 71 71, Brent Geiberger 76 66, Frank Lickliter 71 71, Greg Owen (Eng) 70 72, Nathan Green (Aus) 72 70, Thomas Levet (Fra) 71 71, 143 - Notah Begay 74 69, 144 - Tag Ridings 73 71, Kent Jones 72 72, Harrison Frazar 74 70, Jose Maria Olazabal (Spn) 71 73, 145 - Lee Janzen 71 74, Graeme McDowell (NIre) 70 75, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 74 71, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 74 71, Steve Jones 71 74, Richard S Johnson (Swe) 74 71, Troy Matteson 73 72, 146 - Darren Clarke (NIre) 76 70, 147 - Mathew Goggin 70 77, Nick Watney 78 69, 148 - James Driscoll 79 69, Phil Tataurangi (NZ) 74 74, 149 - Jason Gore 76 73, 153 - Stephen Behr 74 79, 154 - Ted Purdy 77 77, 155 - Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 80 75, Rich Weston 78 77, 157 - Bubba Dickerson 74 83, 158 - Larry George 82 76.
