Everything you need to know from the second round at Mont Choisy Le Golf.
The first-round leader had company at the top while the players put on a short-game masterclass on day two of the 2025 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open.
Here is everything you need to know from the second round at Mont Choisy Le Golf.
Brown joins Pepperell at the top
Danish rookie Hamish Brown joined Eddie Pepperell at the summit after firing a second successive 68 on Friday morning. European Challenge Tour graduate Brown reeled off a hat-trick of birdies on the front nine before adding two more gains either side of a bogey at the 17th to head into the weekend on eight under par. Also on that score at the halfway stage is overnight leader Pepperell, who added a second-round 70 to his opening 66 by mixing four birdies with two bogeys. Another Brown - Englishman Dan Brown - finished his second round in style, meanwhile, closing with five straight birdies to make the cut. Well played, Dan.
Siem's perfect putt
Mauritius resident Marcel Siem found himself at the bottom of a slope beside the 12th green and opted to putt rather than chip. And it proved to be the correct decision as the German only went and holed it...
Tremendous chips
Ben Schmidt well and truly deserved his eagle at the par-five 12th. His impressive chip went from the down slope, onto the up slope and then in the hole...
And Christo Lamprecht also chipped in, holing this beauty at the 18th for a birdie...
Pitch perfect
Jacob Skov Olesen produced a delightful pitch at the fifth to set up a close-range birdie. Olesen, who became the first Danish winner of The Amateur Championship at Ballyliffin in the summer before securing his DP World Tour card at Qualifying School last month, sits one shot off the lead heading into the weekend.
No pictures on a scorecard
Brandon Robinson-Thompson had serious work to do to avoid a big score after his second shot at the sixth hit a wall and ran through the bunker behind the green. But he pulled off a great recovery shot before saving par. 'Just put me down for a four!'.
