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Lyoness Open: Day 2 in numbers
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Lyoness Open: Day 2 in numbers

By Will Pearson, europeantour.com
at Diamond Country Club

Numbers, numbers

​From brilliant Bourdy to cool Cabrera-Bello; from clinical Korhonen to birthday boy Nixon. Day two of the Lyoness Open Powered by Greenfinity had a little bit of everything.

12 - Shots under par leader Gregory Bourdy is after just 36 holes thanks to 13 birdies and just the one dropped shot. Twelve months ago, Mikael Lundberg won the four-round event on the same total

- The Frenchman's advantage at the halfway stage - equalling the tournament record for largest 36-hole lead (Bernhard Langer (1990), Alex Cejka (1995) and Markus Brier (2006))

Gregory Bourdy during day two of the Lyoness Open

1 - Rafa Cabrera-Bello's position in Driving Accuracy and Greens in Regulation at the halfway point, having found - along with leader Bourdy - 32 out of the 36 putting surfaces thus far

53 - Putts for Gary Stal over the first two days - ranking second only to Rikard Karlberg's 52

0 - Bogeys for Mikko Korhonen heading into the weekend. The Finn, tied sixth with 36 holes to come, is the only bogey-free player left in the field

65 - Carlos Pigem's score on Friday. That is the third time this season the Spaniard has shot 65 - his joint best score on The European Tour - with all three coming with the sun on his back (Austria, Thailand, Mauritius)

Carlos Pigem doffs his cap after finishing at seven under

17 - The unfortunate score of Andrey Pavlov at the par five first hole on Friday after the Russian invite found the water six times. Pavlov ties for the second most strokes on an individual hole in European Tour history with Chris Gane (2003 at Gleneagles) with only Phillipe Porquier, who made a score of 20 at the 1978 French Open, having made more

26 - The age of Matthew Nixon as of today. The birthday boy shot a superb 66 on Friday to make the biggest climb up the leaderboard of the day - 86 spots - into a tie for tenth

169 - The yardage of the picturesque par three sixth in the second round - covered in one blow by Scot Duncan Stewart for the fifth ace in tournament history, the first in the event in nine years and the 35th in The 2015 Race to Dubai

1 - Par for Jake Roos in his entertaining front nine 32 which featured six birdies and two bogeys

Bernd Wiesberger of Austria walks off the 18th after missing the cut

12 - Shots better Bernd Wiesberger was with his 67 on day two compared to his first round 79. The Austrian battled hard but still missed the cut by two blows.

32.4 - The top temperature recorded in degrees Celsius on a sweltering day in the lowlands of Austria

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