Jannik de Bruyn will take a two-stroke lead into the weekend of the Kaskáda Golf Challenge at Golf Resort Kaskáda after impressing for a second successive day.
The German carded six birdies and a solitary bogey on his way to a five under par round of 66 and reach 13 under par for the week, two shots clear of Spaniard David Borda and South African Robin Williams who share second.
The 24-year-old followed up a sensational eight under par opening round of 63 with a 66 on day two, and was delighted to put himself firmly in contention with 36 holes to play in Brno.
“I’m very pleased with the two rounds so far and I’m looking forward to the weekend,” he said. “It was a similar round to yesterday where I hit many greens, many fairways and I was only really in trouble once - on hole 16 - and I managed to make a par there.
“I know that it’s quite tough to shoot two good rounds in a row, and sometimes you have expectations of being able to do it again after the first. I’d accepted that before today, and my plan was just to hit as many greens as possible and that’s what I managed to do.
“By doing that, I was able to get chances out there, and I managed to take care of them.”
De Bruyn led after the opening round of the European Open on the DP World Tour two weeks ago before going on to finish in a share of 18th. He says that result gave him a welcome boost ahead of his eighth start of the year on the Road to Mallorca.
“It gave me a lot of confidence,” he added. “I felt like I had the ability to shoot a low score and it showed me that with everything in place, I could come here and hit a low one too.
“That was the thing I had in mind entering this week. I was quite relaxed over the last two days, and that’s what I’ll focus on again over the next two.”
Finn Tapio Pulkkanen birdied three of his closing four holes to reach nine under par for the week and shares fourth place with Dane Hamish Brown and German Maximilian Schmitt.
Five players are one shot further back in seventh including overnight leader Tomas Gouveia from Portugal, Italian Gregorio de Leo, Irishman Gary Hurley, Austrian Timon Baltl and Oliver Lindell from Finland.
Round three gets under way at 7:00am local time, with De Bruyn teeing off alongside Borda and Williams at 11:00am.
