Golfweek Super Senior, Legend, Super Legend National Championship all feature tight leaderboards

A final-round horserace has taken shape at the Golfweek Super Senior National Championship at the Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta. Through 36 holes, two men are tied atop a loaded Super Senior division.

Greg Goode of Salina, Kansas, and Mark Benefield of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, each followed opening rounds of 71 with a round of 2-over 73 in the second round. For Goode, the top-ranked super senior in the Golfweek National Senior Amateur Rankings, the day got off to a bit of a rough start. Goode birdied the par-4 12^th but made a double bogey and two bogeys after that. He recovered with a 2-under 34 on the front nine.

Benefield sprinkled three bogeys and two birdies into his round.

The two men are even par and two shots ahead of a pair of chasers, Jeff Belk of Marietta, Georgia, and Emile Vaughan of Pike Road, Alabama. After that, a group of four men at 3 over includes defending champion Stevie Cannady, who got his breakthrough win at this event last year.

The most interesting round of the day, perhaps, belonged to Greg Kennedy in the senior division. Kennedy, from Peachtree Corners, Georgia, started on the back nine with a birdie but made two bogeys and then lost ground with a double-bogey on the 18^th. He redeemed himself on the front nine with back-to-back eagles at Nos. 8 and 9.

Kennedy’s resulting round of 72 was enough to help him leapfrog first-round leader Todd Doss and take the lead heading into the final round. Kennedy, who played collegiate golf at the University of Georgia in the late 1980s, is now at even par and Doss, after a second-round 75, is 1 over.

The Legend and Super Legend divisions are also shaping up to be entertaining in the final round. Bill Byrne of Madison, Mississippi, and Robert Allen II of John’s Creek, Georgia, are tied for first at 5 over in the Legend division. They share a two-shot lead on a group of three players at 7 over.

In the Super Legend division, John Osborne of Vero Beach, Florida, made up considerable ground with a second-round 72 that moved him to 4 over. He is now tied for the lead with Bill Engel of St. Augustine, Florida. The two share a three-shot lead on Sam Robinson of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Golfweek Super Senior National Championship: Second round scores