The leaderboard at the Golfweek Senior Tournament of Champions became a lot tighter in Sunday’s second round at PGA National’s Champion Course in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Three players are tied for the lead in the Senior division and among the top five players on the board are two U.S. Senior Open winners and a runner-up in that event.
Reigning U.S. Senior Amateur champion Mike McCoy of Norwalk, Iowa, posted a second-round 4-under 68 to climb into a share of the lead with Jerry Gunthorpe of Ovid, Michigan, and Michael Nearly of Boca Raton, Florida.
Gunthorpe, who was runner-up at the U.S. Senior Amateur in 2021 and last month won the Golfweek Senior Desert Showdown in Las Vegas, had the round of the day with a bogey-free 67.
All three men are 3 under and have a narrow lead on first-round leader Sean McQueary of Springfield, Missouri, who is 2 under, and Gene Elliott of Norwalk, Iowa, who is solo fifth at 1 under. Elliott won the U.S. Senior Amateur in ’21 when he defeated Gunthorpe in the title match.
The leaderboard was crowded all day and after 36 holes, there are 15 players within five shots of the lead in the Senior division.
The Super Senior division is similarly tight, albeit with fewer players in the mix. Gary Durbin of Houston has the solo lead at 5 over after a second-round even-par 72. He is one ahead of Philip Ohler of Katonah, New York, who birdied the 17th hole to remain within a shot of the lead. Ohler had back-to-back rounds of 75.
In the Legend division, Greg Osborne of Lititz, Pennsylvania, and Harry Thomas of Arlington, Virginia, both posted a second-round 71 and now are tied for the lead at 6 over. Osborne is the Legend division points leader in the Golfweek Senior National Amateur Rankings and is looking to wrap up Player of the Year honors this week.
His brother, John Osborne of Vero Beach, Florida, is two off Palm Beach local Joel Hirsch’s lead in the Super Legend Division. Osborne, who is 11 over and two shots behind Hirsch, is also chasing Player of the Year honors in his division, but he trails Sam Robinson in that race. Robinson had a second-round 77 and also sits at 11 under with Osborne.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Three tied for lead entering final round of Golfweek Senior TOC
