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Volvo Golf Champions – Day Two in Numbers
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Volvo Golf Champions – Day Two in Numbers

After another entertaining day at Durban Country Club,europeantour.comtook a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the second round of the Volvo Golf Champions.

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67 – The joint best-of-the-day score, shot by4 men: Tommy Fleetwood, Joost Luiten, Matteo Manassero and Branden Grace

3 – Players tied at the top on7 under par with36 holes to come: Fleetwood, Luiten and Louis Oosthuizen

0 – Bogey-free rounds on Friday, despite more scoreable conditions

1 – Luiten’s first-ever albatross – and first of The 2014 Race to Dubai – came on the560-yard10th hole

1 – There was only1 albatross in all of the 2013 season – Chris Doak at the Madeira Islands Open – BPI – Portugal, a feat equalled in just the5th event of the 2014 campaign

248 – The yardage of Luiten’s incredible strike, completed with a4 iron

12– The amount of holes that Irish holidaymaker Pat Cashman caddied for Padraig Harrington after his regular looper Ronan Flood took ill on the6th hole

8 – Nationalities in the top ten following the second round

7 – Eagles on Friday, including2 by Branden Grace at the3rd and13th holes

16 – Players under par at the halfway stage

13 – The amount of shots between first and last place

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