St Lu­cia’s Yad­hu Urs will take a nar­row but valu­able two-stroke lead in­to the third and fi­nal round of the T&T Golf Open af­ter a com­posed per­for­mance on day two at the St An­drews Golf Club in Mo­ka, Mar­aval, Sat­urday.

​Urs, who start­ed the tour­na­ment in sec­ond place fol­low­ing the open­ing round, pro­duced one of the stead­i­est rounds of the day, card­ing a 73 to climb to the top of the Men’s Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion leader­board. His con­sis­tent play left him at one-over-par over­all, putting him in prime po­si­tion as the bat­tle for one of the Caribbean’s most pres­ti­gious golf ti­tles en­ters its de­ci­sive stage.

​De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Chris Richards Jr re­mains firm­ly in the hunt af­ter mov­ing in­to sec­ond place. Richards shot a sol­id 74 to close the gap and now sits at three-over-par over­all, well with­in strik­ing dis­tance of the leader head­ing in­to the fi­nal round.

​Overnight leader Liam Bry­den slipped down the stand­ings af­ter a chal­leng­ing day on the course. Bry­den had set the ear­ly pace with a su­perb two-un­der-par 70 in the open­ing round but strug­gled to main­tain mo­men­tum, sign­ing for a 79 on day two. He heads in­to the fi­nal round in third po­si­tion at five-over-par. T&T’s Ross Ramkissoon sits fourth at nine-over-par and will hope for a strong clos­ing round to push in­to con­tention.

In the Ladies Di­vi­sion, Ja­maica’s Jo­di Munn-Bar­row con­tin­ues to as­sert her dom­i­nance. The de­fend­ing cham­pi­on post­ed a round of 80 to move to 15-over-par over­all, ex­tend­ing her lead to sev­en strokes as she eyes an­oth­er ti­tle.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Vic­to­ria Seenath re­mains sec­ond at 22-over-par af­ter shoot­ing 82, while com­pa­tri­ot Is­abel­la Ramdeen holds third place on 31-over-par fol­low­ing her round of 88.

Mean­while, the Se­niors Di­vi­sion is shap­ing up to be just as com­pet­i­tive head­ing in­to the fi­nal day. Richard Ca­ma­cho leads the field at six-over-par, while Scott Stollmey­er and Neil Latch­mans­ingh are tied for sec­ond place on 12-over-par.

A two-way tie for fourth sees Zeke Per­ci­val along­side Trinidad and To­ba­go foot­ball leg­end Rus­sell Lat­apy, both sit­ting at 15-over-par head­ing in­to the de­ci­sive round.

Clint Al­fred oc­cu­pies sixth place at 17-over-par, while an­oth­er sport­ing icon, leg­endary West In­dies crick­eter Bri­an Lara, sits ninth on 21-over-par as the fi­nal day promis­es an ex­cit­ing fin­ish across the di­vi­sions.

Men’s Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion Gross

Yad­hu Urs 145 (72, 73)

Chris Richards 14 7(73, 74)

Liam Bry­den 149 (70, 79)

Sam­son Avey 152 (75, 77)

Ross Ramkissoon 153 (74, 79)

Shane Costel­lo 155 (82, 73)

Adri­an Nor­ford 156 (77, 79)

Xza­vier Wig­gins 158 (80, 78)

Bob­by Edghill 159 (82, 77)

Ay­den Ali 159 (80, 79) 159

Mar­cus Ling 159 (79, 79)

Zi­co Cor­reia 161 (87, 74)

Alex Kan­goo 161 (84, 77)

Daniel En­rique Vanososte 161 (83, 78)

Thomas Ban­non 163 (80, 83)

Gabriel Vanososte 164 (88, 76)

Ro­manus In­glis 164 (84, 80)

Jer­seem Boodram 165 (79, 86)

Ethan Col­lier 166 (84, 82)

Mau­rice Forde 166 (81, 85)

Roy­ron Adams 166 (80, 86)

Al­pha Jack­man 167(86, 81)

Jor­dan Stephens 167 (84, 83)

Ladies Di­vision Gross

Jo­di Munn- Bar­row 158 (79, 79)

Vic­to­ria Seenath 166 (84, 82)

Is­abel­la Ramdeen 175 (87, 88)

Elise La Bor­de 176 (91, 74)

Kahlan Fran­cis 180 (90, 90)

Em­i­lie Ram­sa­hai 180 (90, 90)

Tori De­fre­itas Bap­tiste 188 (93, 95)

In­grid See­ber­an 191 (96, 95)

Vi­o­let Roopc­hand 199 (101, 98)