Day two digest: Alfred Dunhill Links Championship

Everything you need to know from day two in Scotland.

A life on links, a stroke of luck and a ludicrous front nine all played their part on a thrilling second day of the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Here's everything you need to know from day two in Scotland.

Jordan jumps ahead

For a man of 23, Matthew Jordan is a veteran of links golf. Raised playing the game at Royal Liverpool, he won the Lytham Trophy and the St Andrews Links Trophy - over the Old Course - as an amateur. He was back at the home of golf on Friday and after holing his second on the par four third, he rattled off five birdies in a row en route to a 64 that handed him a one shot lead heading into the weekend. "Now I'm in this position, I want to make sure I kick on and take care of my golf," he said. "I had one more invite and gave myself the luxury of thinking, 'try and play this because of the field, prize money, links golf, which I love'. So I just asked my managers and tried to sort it out because I really wanted to play it and I absolutely love this place."

Embracing the challenge

Jordan currently sits fifth on the Road to Mallorca Rankings on the European Challenge Tour but he is not the only European Tour hopeful impressing this week. Scotsman Calum Hill is one of the form Europeans on any Tour at present with two wins and three further top tens in six events since finishing in the top 30 on home soil at the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scotish Open. A bogey free 65 has left him just a shot off the lead heading into the weekend and a win would stamp his ticket for the remaining events on the European Tour season.

It's just Justin

Justin Rose has done many things in his illustrious career but he (along with most others) has yet to card a 59. Well on Friday at Kingsbarns he turned in 28 to set the tongues wagging in the galleries that something truly special was on the horizon. A double bogey on the 11th ended his hopes but he recovered to card an excellent 64 and stay right in the mix. Plus it wasn't all bad on the 11th, team-mate Justin Timberlake holed this monster to get them a par in the team event.

Lagergren goes low

With Rose turning in 28 and Jordan in 29, the safe money was on one of those two to card the lowest round of the day but Joakim Lagergren had other ideas. The Swede carded five birdies on each side at Kingsbarns to equal the lowest round of his European Tour career with a 62 and sit just one off the lead. "Can't complain on a 62 at Kingsbarns, delighted," he said. "Hitting it straight off the tee and iron shots were solid. Holed a few putts there as well. Just good overall."

If you can't be good

As amateurs, we often see some of the luck that the pros get and think 'that would never happen to me'. Well sometimes it does. This is outrageous.