Irish golfers contending in Munich

Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey was producing the best golf of the day to move to nine under, the five-time European Tour winner bouncing back from a bogey on the second with seven birdies in the next nine holes.

Ireland’s Kevin Phelan was two shots further back thanks to a hat-trick of birdies from the fourth, with Gaunt on six under after following six pars with a bogey on the seventh.