Jarryd Felton, Daniel Nisbet and Ben Eccles are locked in a four-way share of the lead after two rounds of the NSW Open with American Kramer Hickok.
The group is 12-under-par, a shot ahead of Jason Scrivener and Lucas Herbert, with Japanese amateur Takumi Kanaya at 10-under.
Victorian Eccles was the pick of the bunch on Friday at the Twin Creeks Golf and Country Club, his eight-under-par 64 including seven birdies and an eagle at the par-3 11th.
Nisbet had a consistent day, carding a four-under 68 but the 27-year-old Queenslander lost his chance to go to the outright lead with a bogey at the par-4 14th.
Hickok's round of 66 was his second in a row and leaves the 25-year-old Texan with a single bogey and 13 birdies through his first 36 holes.
"I felt like I hit it a little better than yesterday," he said.
"I'm limiting the mistakes, so we'll just keep doing what we're doing. This (course) reminds me of home. It's very similar to Texas, the typography, the grass and the weather, so I'm right at home."
West Australian Felton continued his good form since the Fiji International, also carding his second six-under-par round.
"Very happy to be sitting at the top," he said.
"Fiji gave me the confidence to mix it up with the big boys in the big events. I struggled last week in Europe and it's good to find form here leading into the big events for summer."
Equal overnight leader Victorian Brett Coletta started poorly but regathered to finish Friday where he started, at eight under.
"It was a mistake-fest on the front nine," the 21-year-old said.
"I made some errors from the get-go. The mistakes were mental errors basically, unforced errors. It was (about) just coming back from those."
One highlight of the morning's play came from the group of Coletta, American Zach Murray and veteran Michael Long who shot a combined seven-under-par on the short par-5 11th.
Murray and Coletta both eagled the hole, while Long scored an albatross which he needed, with his overall score at one under and teetering on the cut line.
"We were talking about it. We'd never seen anything like it. We all made that hole look very easy," Coletta said.
