East Berkshire's Guy Woodman has a one-shot lead at the Powerade PGA Assistants' Championship, in association with FootJoy, after a sublime second-round six-under-par 66 on Thursday.
The 31-year-old is one under for the tournament at The London Club, a shot ahead of defending champion Jon Lupton, whose opening rounds of 73 and 71 leave him at level par.
A further shot back on one over are Ifield's Ryan Fenwick, East Sussex National's Jack Budgen, Michael Mulryan and Steven Duncan.
Woodman, who won the south regional qualifier for this event back in May, birdied all four of the Heritage Course's par-fives to be well placed heading into the final day.
Having started from the 10th tee, he picked up another three birdies - at the par-three 11th and the par-four 18th and fourth - and a bogey at 16 was the only blemish on an otherwise flawless card.
A modest Woodman said afterwards: "I played not bad. It was a lot better than yesterday. It was very harsh weather yesterday though so it was a lot easier today.
"The course played a lot different without the fierce winds. The par-fives in particular played a lot easier and the greens weren't so difficult.
"I managed to make a couple more putts than yesterday but I also missed a couple of chances so my score could easily have been 63 without doing anything differently.
"I drove the ball well today too. The fairways are quite forgiving in that you have to hit a long way off target to miss them, but if you do miss them you're dead. The short rough is pretty tricky too - quite difficult to control."
Despite being in contention to clinch the title, Woodman said he is focusing on just playing his normal game on the final day.
"I'm just going to do the same as I did today," he added.
"There are some birdie chances out there that I'll go after. The main thing is that if I'm in contention I've just got to go out there as normal and do the same again.
"It's all about keeping the momentum going but not getting ahead of yourself."
Also in contention is Budgen, whose second-round 68 followed an opening-round 77 and left him one over overall.
Budgen said he is hitting the ball very well and sees no reason why he cannot clinch the title tomorrow.
"I'm really happy with that," he said. "I scrambled well on the way back in. I played really well on my front nine, which is actually the back nine, and had birdies on 12, 14 and 18.
"Then I made an unlikely birdie on the second after hitting in the rough, and I had to rely on a couple of good up-and-downs on the last few.
"Tomorrow I've just got to try and hit as many greens and fairways as I can and hole the putts.
"I'm playing well and if I do that I don't see why I can't win it."