Day two digest: 2022 Masters Tournament

Everything you need to know from day two at the season's first Major Championship.

Scottie surged clear, Charl and Shane were on the move, Stewart was sinking aces and Bernhard was crunching the numbers on day two of the 2022 Masters Tournament.

Here is everything you need to know from Friday at Augusta National Golf Club.

Scheffler dominates day two

Scottie Scheffler continued his remarkable run of form as he opened up a record-equalling five-shot lead heading into the weekend. The American has won three of his last five starts worldwide to catapult himself to the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and he is now looking to claim a maiden Major Championship just two weeks after winning his first WGC title. Blustery winds made scoring far more difficult on day two but Scheffler carded a 67 to get to eight under and lead the way from defending champion Hideki Matsuyama, 2011 winner Charl Schwartzel, South Korea's Sungjae Im and Irishman Shane Lowry. "Once I saw that I took the lead at one point today, my first thought was to just keep trying to build it just because I feel like I'm playing well," said Scheffler. "That will be the goal going into tomorrow, just to keep putting myself in good positions, execute shots, and as long as I'm committed to everything, everything should be fine. The rest really isn't up to me."

Schwartzel inspired by 2011

Schwartzel revealed rewatching some of his winning moments from his victory in 2011 inspired him to a brilliant 69 on day two. With blustery winds making scoring far tougher than on day one, the South African's three under par effort left him on the same score for the week and right in contention for a second Green Jacket. The 11-time DP World Tour winner made it to the weekend in the first two Rolex Series events of the season but since then has missed six cuts in a row on the US PGA Tour. He made a mockery of that form on Friday at Augusta and revealed he had been delving into his archive in the build-up to the season's opening Major Championship. “The bad results didn’t really determine how I felt coming in here," he said. “I actually took two weeks off and as the two weeks went by, my confidence grew in belief that I could win this tournament because I was starting to hit it very good and just looked at old footage and it’s still there."

Lowry goes low in the wind

You don't win an Open without being able to play in the wind and Lowry mastered the conditions on his way to matching the lowest round of his Masters career. The Irishman played some exquisite wedge shots in a 68 he called one of the best rounds of his career - not that he enjoyed it. "I didn't enjoy it really much at all," he said. "It was so hard out there. Look, it was one of my better rounds of my career, I think."

Cink goes down in history

Stewart Cink completed the brilliant achievement of having made a hole-in-one in each of the last four decades when he aced the 16th on Friday. His son Reagan was caddying for him on his 25th birthday and the joy was there for all to see.

No rough time for Langer

Two-time champion Bernhard Langer will not be playing the weekend but he did enjoy a successful two days off the tee, missing just one fairway. That's a 96 per cent success rate with the rest of the field at 72 per cent. He's still got it.

Bubba being Bubba

The Masters, pine straw, a tiny gap, Bubba Watson - you know what's next.