PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Tripp Isenhour shot a 3-under-par 67 Friday and maintained his lead after 36 holes of the $550,000 Movistar Panama Championship, the season-opening event on the 2006 Nationwide Tour schedule.

Isenhour posted a tournament-record, 10-under 130 score for his two trips around the Panama Golf Club, two shots better than Parker McLachlin (66) and Mario Tiziani (66). Brendan Pappas (66) is three back, while Travis Perkins (64) and Jeremy Anderson (68) are tied for fifth, four off the pace.

The 37-year-old Isenhour is rewriting the record book so far, having broken the course record with a 7-under 63 in Thursday's opener.

"Those records really don't mean a whole lot at this point," said Isenhour, whose last win came at the 2003 BMW Charity Pro-Am. "It's more about winning tournaments. Money records, now those mean something and I have an awfully long way to go to catch Mr. (Tiger) Woods."

Isenhour set the course record Thursday while battling 10-20 mph afternoon winds and was four shots off his score during Friday's morning session when the winds were absent.

"It makes no sense at all," he said. "I think I played about the same but I didn't have as many 10-to-15-footers today. They were all 20-footers. The ones I did have, I hit good putts but they just missed. I guess that was the real difference."

Isenhour had four birdies in his round, including a pair of two-putt birdies on the two par 5s. He missed eagle putts from 12 and 15 feet on the two holes and his lone bogey was a three-putt from 60 feet when he left the initial putt some 15 feet short.

"It was downhill and down grain so I thought it was going to be lightning-fast," he said. "I found out it was not."

Despite the misses and near misses, Isenhour's scores kept getting better as his round progressed. The electronic leaderboards mistakenly showed Isenhour at 13-under for most of the day, his lead bulging to seven strokes according to the boards.

"I don't look at those boards much during a round but I happen to glance over at one on the back nine and saw that I was 13-under," he said. "I had a chuckle that it was that far off. Still, I've got a chance now. If I go out and try to win it tomorrow (Saturday) or Sunday, I won;t do it. It;s cliché but I have to keep hitting my golf shots. We'll just add 'em up at the end and see who wins. I like my chances because I;m out front and playing well."

Also playing well is Kevin Gessino-Kraft, who matched Isenhour's 63 with one of his own Friday morning. After an opening 72 on the par-70 layout, Gessino-Kraft was bogey-free on his march up the leaderboard.

"I have been struggling with my swing for most of this week and then I saw Tripp's score yesterday and I thought to myself 'I'm just not ready to shoot 63,'" he said. "It was nice to prove myself wrong today. I didn't have a lot of expectations about today. I was just trying to shoot one or two-under and hopefully stick around for the weekend. Now I've put myself in a position where I have to grind it out this weekend because I can have a chance. And that's fine, too."

Second Round News & Notes: Ricky Barnes made the first hole-in-one of the year. Barnes aced the 161-yard, 17th hole using a wedge. It was the second ace in the tournament's three-year history. Barnes posted a 6-under 64 Friday and is at 2-under for the tournament, tied for 15th place ... David Peoples withdrew during the round due to an injury ... A total of 69 players made the 36-hole cut, which came at 2-over-par 142 ... Friday's scoring average was 71.137.