English duo Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood both had the thrill of leading The Masters Tournament at Augusta National as the second round swung into life.
Poulter picked up birdies at the second and eighth, the two par fives on the outward half, and with pars on the other seven stood six under par.
On a much tougher set-up - to nobody's surprise the pin positions were much closer to the edges - that was good enough to put the WGC-Accenture World Match Play champion alongside not only overnight leader Fred Couples, but also his fellow American Ricky Barnes.
Couples also birdied the second, but bogeyed the ninth and remained level par for the day with six to play, while Barnes birdied the second and third.
Tiger Woods, meanwhile, held a share of second place when he also birdied the second - after first rescuing a par from the trees with a superb chip at the opening hole - but bogeyed the fourth.
Five pars followed that to leave him four under and tied for seventh with, among others, 60 year old Tom Watson, who birdied the second as well but sandwiched it between two bogeys.
Westwood and Phil Mickelson, both only a shot behind Couples overnight, were among the later starters.
Poulter added another birdie thanks to a ten foot putt at the dangerous 12th, but he had been overtaken at that point - by Westwood, the player who took money off him in practice on Tuesday.
While others were content to hold on to what they had in the more testing conditions, a marvellous eagle on the second propelled Westwood to top spot and with a three on the 350 yard next he was eight under and one ahead of Poulter.
So it was an England one-two in a tournament not won by any British player since Nick Faldo in 1996 and by any European since Jose Maria Olazábal in 1999.
Couples bogeyed the 14th to leave Barnes alone in third, while Woods had seven pars in a row to be four under and joint eighth.
Poulter and Westwood appeared to be spurring each other on even though they were on opposite halves of the course.
Poulter made ten footers on the 12th and 13th to reach eight under, but Westwood, having bogeyed the fifth to fall one behind, promptly birdied the next two.
Mickelson had his first birdie on the third and went third on six under, while Woods rolled home a 20 foot effort at the 13th and, with Barnes bogeying the same hole, was joint fourth.
