Joey Sindelar took over at the top of the leaderboard after yesterday's second round of the BellSouth Classic in Atlanta after adding a 66 to his opening 68 to stand on 10 under.

The 42-year-old, without a win for 10 years and after six missed cuts out of six this season, is one ahead of John Huston and two in front of two more Americans - Phil Mickelson and first round leader Paul Stankowski.

Bray's Keith Nolan, who had begun the day at the bottom of the field after a four-over-par 76, looked to have secured a lifeline when he open his second round with a blistering start. He birdied three of the first four holes, and added another birdie before the turn to get back to level par, which was the projected cut at the time.

But three dropped shots on the back nine left Nolan only one-under for the round and three over for the tournament to miss the weekend's play.

Nick Price, who holds one record at Augusta he is very proud of and another he is most definitely not, drew attention to himself for the wrong reason again in Atlanta.

In contention after an opening 68, the Zimbabwean crashed not just off the leaderboard, but out of the event because of one nightmare hole.

Still four-under-par with five holes to play in his second round, Price had a sextuple bogey 10 at the 418-yard fifth on the Greg Norman-designed TPC at Sugarloaf course.

After driving into sand the 43-year-old then saw two pitches spin off the green into the guarding creek, hit a third ball into another bunker and failed to get up and down.

But the 10 revived memories not of the 63 he had at the 1986 Masters, a course record he shares with Norman, but of the quadruple bogey eight he had on the 14th a few years ago. That remains the highest score ever taken at the 405-yard hole.