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Peter Lonard takes lead with 65

Peter Lonard shot a 7-under-par 65 Friday to take a one-stroke lead after the second round of the Australian PGA golf championship.

The Australian, who won the tournament in 2002 and 2004, stormed to the lead with a faultless second round which included seven birdies and was at 11-under 133.

Lonard's run up the leaderboard included four straight birdies on the back nine, as he took the lead ahead of countrymen Nathan Green, Wade Ormsby, Paul Gow and Rod Pampling -- all at 10-under.

"I was struggling a bit early," Lonard said. "It wasn't the same contact as I had yesterday but toward the end I started to feel comfortable over the ball again.

"That chip-in (on 11) helped and I made a good putt on the next. After that they kept going in thankfully."

Green, who tied for third at last year's tournament, had nine birdies in an 8-under 64, the best round of the day. The winner of last week's New Zealand Open said his stroke play remained strong.

"I didn't feel overly confident because I didn't play great yesterday," Green said. "But I came out today and made one over the back edge of the 11th and from then on just putted really well."

Gow also had a 65 one day after opening with a 69. Ormsby, who tied for second behind Green at the New Zealand Open, carded 66 with five straight birdies between the second and sixth holes.

Australia's Peter O'Malley (69), the early second-round leader, finished the day tied for sixth place with Nick O'Hern (69) at 9 under.

Adam Scott, ranked No. 4 in the world, had a 67 and was in tied for 21st place at 5 under.

133 Peter Lonard 68 65

134 Rodney Pampling 67 67, Paul Gow 69 65, Nathan Green 70 64, Wade Ormsby 68 66

135 Nick O'Hern 66 69, Peter O'Malley 66 69

136 Anthony Gilligan 68 68, David Smail (Nzl) 69 67, Steven Jeffress 69 67, Bradley Iles (Nzl) 65 71, Michael Wright 68 68

137 Euan Walters 70 67

138 Craig Parry 68 70, Nigel Stivala 67 71, Gavin Coles 68 70, James Nitties 64 74, Peter Wilson 69 69, Peter Senior 69 69, Stuart Appleby 67 71

139 David Lutterus (Rsa) 71 68, Adam Scott 72 67, Robert Allenby 70 69, Geoff Ogilvy 68 71, Adam Crawford 69 70

140 Chris Campbell 72 68, Scott Laycock 71 69, Unho Park 71 69, Steven Bowditch 70 70, Andrew Tschudin 71 69, Terry Pilkadaris 72 68, Eric Egloff 67 73, David McKenzie 67 73, Jarrod Lyle 66 74, Adam Bland 72 68, Richard Green 69 71, Gavin Flint 72 68, Brad Kennedy 72 68, Scott Gardiner 72 68

141 Ryan Haller 70 71, Steve Collins 70 71, Martin Doyle 70 71, Marcus Cain 69 72, Steve Jones (USA) 73 68, Mathew Goggin 71 70, Marc Leishman 66 75, Matt Ballard 72 69, Matthew Millar 68 73, Kim Felton 69 72

142 Leigh McKechnie 72 70, Luke Hickmott 67 75, Aron Price 72 70, Michael Brennan 71 71, Wayne Grady 70 72, Brett Rumford 73 69, Tristan Lambert 70 72, Kevin Stadler (USA) 71 71, Tony Christie (Nzl) 72 70, Matthew Keegan 70 72

143 Jason Norris 72 71, Jarrod Moseley 69 74, Gary Simpson 72 71, Neil Sarkies 72 71, Peter Fowler 72 71

144 Brad McIntosh 74 70, Paul Marantz 77 67, Craig Carmichael 73 71, Ben Burge 73 71, Ben Bunny 69 75, Cameron Percy 72 72, Paul Sheehan 73 71

The following players failed to make the cut:

145 Tony McFadyean 76 69, Adam Porker 75 70, Michael McGrath 71 74, Brad Burns 71 74, Adam Le Vesconte 72 73, Brad Heaven (Nzl) 68 77, Terry Price 70 75, Danny Chia (Myn) 71 74, Richard Swift (Eng) 72 73

146 Craig Woodbridge 71 75, Neil Speirs 74 72, Scott Strange 73 73, Daniel Morrison 70 76, Andrew Johnson (USA) 72 74, Lee Sung (Hkg) 71 75, David Walker (Eng) 71 75, Ricky Schmidt 74 72, Ewan Porter 75 71, Angelo Que (Phi) 72 74

147 Aaron Townsend 71 76, Andrew Buckle 73 74, Darren Beck 72 75, Greg Green 74 73, Tony Beckett 70 77, Nick Flanagan 74 73, Wei Lu (Chn) 74 73, Anthony Painter 74 73, Michael Long (Nzl) 74 73, Craig Jones 71 76, Danny Vera 71 76

148 Kevin Chun (Nzl) 75 73, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 77 71, Peter O'Dwyer 75 73, Mark Gilson 74 74, Matthew Milne 76 72, Marcus Fraser 72 76, Ashley Hall 77 71

149 Scott Hend 70 79, Pete Nolan 73 76, Phil Tataurangi (Nzl) 79 70, Mitchell Brown 75 74, Matthew Guyatt 74 75, Shane Baxter 72 77, David Diaz 74 75

150 Scott Fisher 73 77, Richard Kent 74 76, Martin Joyce 73 77, Greg Chalmers 75 75, Andrew Pitt 73 77, Kane Webber (USA) 77 73, Brad Andrews 76 74, Matthew Ecob 74 76, Lee Hunt 75 75, Michael Harwood 73 77, David Bransdon 80 70, Scott Draper (Rsa) 78 72, Nathan Goulding 74 76

151 Chris Downes 78 73, Mahal Pearce (Nzl) 77 74, Andrew Duffin (Eng) 78 73, Julian Reynolds 72 79, Yuki Mifune 78 73

152 Brendan Chant 71 81, Craig Scott 81 71, Andrew Martin 82 70, Ian Devlin 77 75, Nathan Kent 75 77, Brad Lamb 77 75

153 Tony Carolan 71 82, Aaron Black 78 75, Adam Wilcox 77 76

154 Nathan Weir 80 74, Henry Perks (Rsa) 77 77, Ryan Haywood 81 73

155 Peter Martin 76 79, Kane Streat 74 81, Jon Abbott 80 75, Jason Louey 80 75

156 Paul Habgood 75 81

158 Won Joon Lee 79 79, Brett Liprini 78 80

159 Kong Tan (Myn) 79 80

160 Giampaolo Zanol (Ita) 77 83

161 Chris Gray (Eng) 74 87, Nicholas Robb 77 84