After an entertaining Friday in Dubai, europeantour.com takes a statistical look back at the best of the action from the second round of the DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates.
134 - Matt Fitzpatrick leads by one shot heading into the weekend in Dubai. The defending champion carded a second consecutive 67 on Friday to reach ten under par
8 - Fitzpatrick has never been outside the top eight after all ten of his career rounds on the Earth Course since making his debut here in 2015 (6th-7th-6th-4th-7th-8th-2nd-1st-4th-1st)
1,987- Rounds in the history of the DP World Tour Championship. Only once has anyone shot lower than the nine under par 63 recorded by Tyrrell Hatton on Friday (Justin Rose's course record 62 in 2012). It was the second 63 at the tournament after Rafa Cabrera Bello in the third round last year, while there have been 12 scores of 64
+8.0- Hatton's effort was also statistically the best round in the history of the event at 7.98 shots better than field average, 0.23 shots better than the previous best (Peter Hanson's 64, which was +7.6 strokes better during round one in 2011)
10- Hatton's 63 was his tenth round of 65 or better this season (15.6 per cent), the most of any player on the European Tour in 2017
+4.2 - Strokes gained putting for the Englishman on Friday. He needed just 1.33 Putts per GiR in a top day on the greens
1-2- After 36 holes, the top two postitions in the leaderboard are occupied by the same two players who finished winner and runner-up here 12 months ago
144- Yardage of Hatton's hole-out eagle on Friday, made with a nine iron at the par four fifth
65 - Tommy Fleetwood shot his lowest score in 17 career rounds on the Earth Course to move back into the lead in the projected Race to Dubai Rankings as money-list rival shot 70 to slip back into a tie for third place
0- Kiradech Aphibarnrat remains the only player bogey-free through 36 holes in Dubai. Despite being tied 22nd, Francesco Molinari is the only player to have dropped just one shot thus far
