After another brilliant day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the second round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
9 – Shots under par Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Craig Lee are in leading by1 after36 holes
14 – Birdies Lee has made over the first two days in Abu Dhabi
63 – The low round of the day shot by Danny Willett –1outside Henrik Stenson’s8 year old course record of62
1 – Eagle at the long8th plus7 birdies in a round featuring0 bogeys for Willett
10 – Shots better off Willett was than in his first round73
60 – Places Willett’s second round heroics propelled him up the leaderboard
469 – Days before today since Stenson missed a cut on The European Tour (the Alfred Dunhill Links in October2012)
2 – Eagles in Alvaro Quiros’s rollercoasters second round, at the par4 11th and par5 8th, which also included3 birdies and5 bogeys
95 – The yardage of Quiros’ wedge that he holed at11
4 – Shots Martin Kaymer was over par through6 holes on Saturday
1 – Shots under par he was on signing his card
21 – The number of holes it took Phil Mickelson to card his first birdie of the tournament
9 – Nationalities in the top ten following the second round
72 – Players to make the cut on level par or better
400 – Birdies on day two
4 – Eagles during Friday’s play; there were only5 in total last year
14 – The hardest hole on the course in the second round, the par4 averaged at4.22 and only conceded11 birdies all day
8 – The easiest hole on Friday, the par5 averaged at4.74 and yielded2 eagles and40 birdies
27 – The amount of shots between first and last place
