Moor Park Golf Club professionals Callum Shinkwin and Matt Wallace will be seeking to make progressive moves when they start their Portugal Masters third rounds this morning after both successfully made the club.

Wallace is the better placed of the duo after a three-under-par second round of 68 moved him up to five-under, while his club-mate is one shot further back after losing ground with a two-over-par 73 for his second 18 holes at Dom Pedro Victoria Golf Club.

Pinner-based Wallace, who secured his third European Tour top-10 finish at last week’s KLM Open, has now made it through to the weekend of five successive tournaments.

Shinkwin’s recent record of making rounds three and four of events is also good; excluding a missed cut at The Open, he has got past the halfway stage in five of his last six European Tour events.

The Bushey professional had started yesterday only one shot behind the first round lead after a fine opening six-under-par round of 65.

Having teed off from the 10th, the 24-year-old couldn’t match his birdie-making exploits of his first day, although he did pick up shots at the par fives at 12 and five. These were offset by bogey fives at 15 and three, but he was to finish two-over for the day after a double bogey five at the par six third.

Wallace had no such issues as birdies at the par four first and third quickly moved him to four-under, and he picked up another shot at the par four tenth.

The only blemish on the 27-year-old’s round came at another par four at 14, but that was quickly retrieved with a birdie three at 15.

The tournament is currently led by Italy’s Nino Bertasio on 12-under.