Spaniard Carlos Aguilar rattled off four successive birdies en route to grabbing the lead at the midway stage of the ALLIANZ Open Côtes d'Armor Bretagne on the Challenge Tour. The 29 year old from Alicante has been competing predominantly on France's Allianz Tour and the Spanish National Tour, but he set up a golden opportunity to claim a place on the Challenge Tour with a round of 66 which moved him to five under par.

After a superb round of 64 former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker of England, who won the inaugural event in 2007, is in the chasing pack on three under par, alongside Sweden's Jens Dantorp and Finn Mikko Korhonen.

England's David J Russell and Paul Wesselingh made a flying start to the new Senior Tour season as they shared the lead with American Dick Mast at the end of the opening day of the Mallorca Open Senior. The leading trio shot three under par rounds of 68 over the José María Olazábal-designed Pula Golf Club to lie one stroke ahead of nine players including former Ryder Cup Captains Mark James, Sam Torrance and Ian Woosnam, Senior Tour debutant Philip Walton and last year's Number One, Peter Fowler.

The presence of the two Englishmen at the top of the leaderboard will certainly give Kedleston Park Golf Club, near Derby, plenty to cheer about as both players have been associated with the club - Wesselingh taking over from Russell as the head professional in 2001.

English teen star Charley Hull is just two strokes off the lead heading into the weekend at the Turkish Airlines Ladies Open. The 16-year-old amateur from Burton Latimer in Northamptonshire outplayed the likes of Laura Davies, Melissa Reid and last week's winner, Carly Booth, to lie in a share of fourth place at the halfway stage in her Ladies European Tour debut event at National Golf Club in Antalya.

The defending champion and Solheim Cup player Christel Boeljon of the Netherlands retained a share of the overnight lead at three under and was joined by Finland's Ursula Wikstrom on a tough day, when a swirling breeze and tricky pins played havoc with scoring. Finland's Minea Blomqvist was a stroke back at two under.

England's Peter Richardson took advantage of the near perfect conditions to post a seven-under-par 65 and grabbed the second round lead at the PGM ADT Masters at A'Famosa on Friday. The Englishman mixed his card with eight birdies and one bogey for a two-day total of 12-under-par 132 to hold a five-shot lead over Malaysia's Rashid Ismail who returned with a 70 at the A'Famosa Golf Resort in Malacca.

Japan's Go Nakauchi and Korea's Kim Ji-hoon signed for matching 139s to take a share of third place while Malaysia's Hanafiah Jamil and R. Nachimuthu are bunched in equal fifth with Japan's Kenichi Sawada on 140 at the RM180,000 (approximately US$60,000) Asian Development Tour (ADT) event, which is the third ADT event to be staged this season.