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Robert Allenby still leads the 2007 Australian Masters after the second round 68, however the big mover of the day was Badds. Aaron Baddeley shot a second round 66 to be only one shot off the lead at eight under. Round of the day belonged to little known Englishman Dave Horsey who shot a seven under round of 65.

Leaderboard after round 2
-9 ALLENBY, Robert
-8 BADDELEY, Aaron
-5 McILROY, Rory
-5 PILKADARIS, Terry
-5 KULACZ, Rick
-5 CHOPRA, Daniel
-5 STRANGE, Scott
-4 PAMPLING, Rod
-4 BARNES, Kurt
-4 BAKER, Peter
-4 APPLEBY, Stuart
-4 ZIONS, Matthew

Round one of the Australian MasterCard Masters is complete and two time champion Robert Allenby has the lead after carding a five under round of 67. I thought we may have seen better scoring considering it has been wet the last couple of days here in Melbourne. Hopefully it will be a nice day Saturday as I might try and get along at catch some of the action live.

Leaderboard after Round 1
-5 ALLENBY, Robert
-4 ANDERSSON HED, Fredrik
-4 BAKER, Peter
-3 LONG, Michael
-3 CHOPRA, Daniel
-3 APPLEBY, Stuart
-3 PAMPLING, Rod
-3 BARNES, Kurt
-3 MARANTZ, Paul

Summer is upon us which means the Australasian PGA Tour swings into full speed. The MasterCard Masters kicks off tomorrow at Huntingdale, in my home town Melbourne. The MasterCard Masters is co-sanctioned by the Australasian & European Tours, so hopefully we will see a good field this year. We should considering last years champion Justin Rose went on the have a fabulous year which included taking out the European Order of Merit with a win in the final event, the Volvo Masters at Valderrama.