Day two digest: Scandinavian Mixed Hosted by Henrik & Annika

Everything you need to know from day two in Sweden.

Hedwall hit the front, Luiten was lying in wait, Samooja was bringing out the trickshots and the kids were alright on day two of the 2021 Scandinavian Mixed Hosted by Henrik & Annika.

Here is everything you need to know from Friday in Gothenburg.

History maker Hedwall

Just 24 hours after Christine Wolf became the first woman to co-lead a European Tour event, Caroline Hedwall became the first woman to solo lead one. The Solheim Cup star fired a brilliant 64 including two eagles to get to 13 under and lead the way by one shot from playing partner Joost Luiten. The Swede has six Ladies European Tour wins to her name, could she become the first female European Tour winner on Sunday? "I was a bit lucky out there today," she said. "I made two eagles and made a bunker shot - it was very enjoyable! If you look at the leaderboard, it looks like they have set it up pretty fair, but it’s hard to judge. I think looking at the mix of the players on the leaderboard, I think they have done a good job because it’s obviously tough. It is good being back in Sweden and I’m just going to try and enjoy myself.”

Luiten loving life in the mix

Luiten was a just a shot behind Hedwall both on the day and for the week as he stayed bogey free through 36 holes with a 65. The Dutchman is looking for his seventh European Tour win and enjoyed playing alongside the leader and teenage sensation Pia Babnik. "It was a bit of getting used to it because I was the only man in the group, so it was a bit of a different rhythm, but it makes it fun to play different formats and it’s fun to see the girls as well," he said. "They really crushed the ball; well, you see that in the scores. I’m hitting the ball well off the tee, hitting good iron shots, not missing many greens, putter was pretty good today. Yesterday I felt like I left a couple too many out there, but I feel if you hit the greens here you have some chances."

Teenage kicks

Last week, 17-year-old Babnik won her maiden Ladies European Tour title. Over the first two days in Gothenburg, she has gone 68-66 in the company of Hedwall and Luiten to sit just three shots off the lead. Should she lift the trophy on Sunday, she would become not just the European Tour's first female winner but also its youngest ever. But the Slovenian is not getting ahead of herself. “It was great to play with Joost and Caroline, we all played really well, and I really enjoyed it," she said. "After my win, I’m trying to take this as a new competition and pretend like nothing happened. I will try to play well over the weekend, like I did these past two days, and we will see what happens.”

Annika loves home playing return

This week's co host Annika Sorenstam retired as arguably the greatest player in the history of women's golf in 2008 and had not played competitively on home soil since before this week. Back to back rounds of 73 mean the 50-year-old will not be featuring competitively over the weekend but the ten time Major Champion revealed she was still having the time of her life. "It’s been a great week, even though this shortens my tournament play," she said. "I’m going to have a good time with the family, continue to support the event and be part of the festivities. It’s been fun to be out there, playing with Henrik (Stenson) and Thomas (Bjørn) and my best friend Marie on the bag and family around. It’s all about the memories and the journey. Score-wise it’s not what I had in mind, I’m still happy, life is still good. I’m not going to dig a hole and disappear. There are so many fun things going to happen."

And for my next trick

There are backhanded shots and there are backhanded shots. Take a bow, Kalle Samooja.