Hi5 Golf Club are the overall leaders at the halfway stage of the 60th Bermuda Goodwill Pro-Am Tournament, leading Belfair Plantation by three strokes.

The Canadian club had a second straight round of 63 yesterday at Tucker’s Point after playing at nearby Mid Ocean course on Monday and their two-round total of 126 going into today’s rest day gives them breathing space.

Belfair dropped two strokes on the leaders after adding a round of 65 at Tucker’s Point to go with their 64 on Mid Ocean.

Hi5Golf and Belfair are competing in the senior team division where three more teams are in contention on 131. Overall there are five teams on 131 — Lakes Golf and Country Club, Kings Riding Golf Club, National Golf Club of Canada B, Donalda Country Club and Bellewood Golf Club.

Hi5 Golf, Belfair and Lakes are playing their third round at Port Royal tomorrow before finishing at Riddell’s Bay on Friday.

National B lead the junior division by three strokes over local team Port Royal and Riverside Golf Club, both with a two-round score of 134. Port Royal are tied for ninth overall with Riverside and Woodland Golf Club.

In the professional divisions, which is using the Stableford scoring system, Dennis Hendershott, of Hi5 Golf, and Chris Moody, from Riverside, share the junior division on 38 points. One point back is Port Royal’s Dwayne Pearman, while Thomas Doherty, from Woodland, has 36 points.

There is a three-way tie at the top of the senior professional division with Danny Mijovic, of Kings Riding, Scott Spence, of Lakes, and Ted Griffin, of Woodland, each on 34 points. Keir Smith from National is a point back on 33 and John Rushnell, of Oshawa Golf and Curling Club, is on 32 points.

Mid Ocean Ladies have the halfway lead in the women’s event with a two-day total of 143, which gives them a one-shot lead over Georgian Bay Golf Club and four strokes clear of Riddell’s Bay.

Leading the way in the individual race on 23 points are Meg Chapman, of Georgian Bay, Andree Lapierre, of London Hunt Club, and Jen Jaszek, from Hi5 Golf. Ann Carroll, of Lambton Golf and Country Club, and Peggy Stevens, from Mid Ocean Ladies, have 16 points.

Today is a rest day and a Ryder Cup-style tournament between golfers from the United States and Canada will be held at the Turtle Hill course before competition resumes tomorrow.

Good weather is in the forecast for the last two days of the tournament, meaning that the division leaders will have to play well tomorrow and Friday to hold off their pursuers.

Scores, page 14