Sheringham's William Harrold is well-placed going into today's final round of the EuroPro Tour's Motocaddy Masters at Wensum Valley.

The 23-year-old former Gresham's pupil, who has only been a pro since the start of the year, shot a level par 72 to finish the first round in a tie for sixth place and only three shots behind leader Rika Batibasaga from Australia.

Heavy rain had caused a near four-hour delay on Wednesday afternoon and when play then had to be abandoned early the opening tournament of the 2012 888poker.com PGA EuroPro Tour was reduced from 54 holes to a 36-hole tournament. The cut was made at three over and 57 players will participate in the final round, which will commence at 8am today with a two-tee start.

'I played well, it was a little up and down,' said Harrold, who carded three birdies and an eagle at the par 4 13th as well as three three bogeys and a double bogey. 'I was one under through my first three which I played last night (Wednesday). When I came out this morning (Thursday) I had a couple of solid pars but hit a bit of a bad shot on six which cost me a couple of shots but other than that I played pretty well, was patient and then on the back nine I birdied 12, eagled 13 and birdied 14 to get myself to one under I then I dropped a shot on 16 to go level par.'

Harrold was certainly pleased to have dodged the worst of the weather.

'To be honest I think my group got quite lucky with the draw; of the holes we played last night we only got wet on one hole and today we were dry. It was windy but I don't know if today's wind was as hard as yesterday's rain but I felt like we had fairly decent weather.'

Just six shots separate those who made the cut, leaving the tournament wide open.

'It is pretty close. It is only my first year so I haven't really been in this position before so I'm not going to say I'm going to win because that would be quite a bold statement! But I have played pretty well and I'm confident of being below par for the tournament. But I don't know that the weather will do tomorrow.'

Gorleston's Alexander Holmes made the cut on three over while Weston Park's Danny Chapman fell short, scoring eight over.

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