Yorkshire golf: Wath's Nick Poppleton goes low to lead Yorkshire amateur at Moortown
![Wath's Nick Poppleton, pictured on his way to a 67 and the halfway lead in the Yorkshire amateur championship (Picture: Chris Stratford).](https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/webimg/legacy_ash_83172858.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![Wath's Nick Poppleton, pictured on his way to a 67 and the halfway lead in the Yorkshire amateur championship (Picture: Chris Stratford).](/img/placeholder.png)
Poppleton added a four-under-par 67 to his opening 75 and heads the 42 qualifiers for Thursday's final two rounds on level par.
The host club's Phil Tomkinson sat atop the leaderboard for a long time after carding a three-under-par 68 and holds second spot alone on 144, one ahead of three players – Wheatley's Kealan Lowe (74 71), Howley Hall's Ben Hutchinson (73 72) and England B international Will Whiteoak, of Shipley (73 72).
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Hide AdFirst-round leader David Hague (Malton & Norton) is six shots adrift after following his opening level-par 71 with a 77.
Poppleton had just one bogey on his card, at the 446-yard par-4 sixth, but as well as birdieing the opening and closing holes on his outward nine also birdied three in a row from the 15th.
Tomkinson, the 2015 Yorkshire Order of Merit winner, had a far more adventurous round, which he began with an eagle at the 488-yard par-5 first. He had four bogeys, but also birdies at holes four, five, 11, 12 and 18.