Bernd Wiesberger and Michael Hollick shared the third-round lead after negotiating tricky conditions at the 2026 BMW International Open.
Wiesberger and Hollick were among five players to temporarily top the leaderboard midway through Moving Day at Golfclub München Eichenried before the pair moved clear.
Hollick was the first to reach 13 under for the tournament after three birdies by the tenth, only for Wiesberger to overcome an early bogey by carding six birdies in his 67 to reach the clubhouse at that mark.
His South African rival dropped at shot at the 11th but bounced back with a birdie at the 16th to sign for three-under 69 and join the Austrian at 13 under, one clear of Carlos Ortiz in a contested leaderboard.
"It was good, I was quite patient all day," Wiesberger said. "All in all, felt quite solid and kept myself out of trouble for the most part, and if I didn't I scrambled well. I think 67 in these conditions is a pretty decent score."
Hennie du Plessis eagled the last on Friday to hold a one-shot lead, but the South African was joined by a home favourite by the time he teed off.
Thomas Rosenmueller produced the round of day to surge into contention. Despite bogeying the opening hole, he carded an eagle, seven birdies and another dropped shot in his 65 to sit in the clubhouse at 11 under.
The German was alone at the top when Du Plessis bogeyed the second and the rest of the field struggled to keep up with the leading 29-year-old.
Hollick was the first to sit alongside Rosenmueller with a birdie at the sixth before there were a glut of players to reach that mark.
Carlos Ortiz also birdied the sixth, Wiesberger carded his fourth gain of the day at the 13th and Joe Dean eagled the ninth for a five-way tie at 11 under.
Hollick jumped two clear when he holed back-to-back birdies from the ninth, but Wiesberger followed suit by picking up shots at the 15th and 16th as they moved to 13 under.
Wiesberger took the outright lead when Hollick dropped a shot at the 11th, however, Ortiz joined the South African at 12 under after birdieing the 11th for the third day in a row.
Nine-time DP World Tour winner Wiesberger parred his way home to set the new benchmark of 13 under, with Hollick rejoining the Austrian at the summit with a birdie at the 16th.
"It's awesome, I'm doing something I never thought I was going to get the chance to do" Hollick said about co-leading. "Thirty-nine years old and living out my dream, can't ask for much more than that really."
The 16th seemed to be the lucky hole as Ortiz drained a 12-foot putt to make it a three-way tie at the top.
Ortiz bogeyed the next to slip back one and could not birdie the final hole for the third successive round to sit one off the pace of the leading pair.
Du Plessis birdied the last to join Rosenmueller in a share of fourth at 11 under, while Frenchman Oihan Guillamoundeguy and England's Jack Senior were a shot adrift in a tie for sixth.
One shot further back were Spaniard Manuel Elvira, South African Casey Jarvis, France's Jeong weon Ko and Marco Penge, on his first start since the US PGA Championship due to bouts of vertigo and sinus issues following a viral infection in November.