Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship: Day Two in Numbers

After another brilliant day in the UAE, europeantour.com took a numerical, and sometimes sideways, look at the key numbers from the second round of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.

<b>9 </b>– Shots under par Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Craig Lee are in leading by<b>1 </b>after<b>36 </b>holes

<b>14 </b>– Birdies Lee has made over the first two days in Abu Dhabi

<b>63 </b>– The low round of the day shot by Danny Willett –<b>1</b>outside Henrik Stenson’s<b>8 </b>year old course record of<b>62</b>

<b>1 </b>– Eagle at the long<b>8</b>th plus<b>7 </b>birdies in a round featuring<b>0 </b>bogeys for Willett

<b>10 </b>– Shots better off Willett was than in his first round<b>73</b>

<b>60 </b>– Places Willett’s second round heroics propelled him up the leaderboard

<b>469 </b>– Days before today since Stenson missed a cut on The European Tour (the Alfred Dunhill Links in October<b>2012</b>)

<b>2 </b>– Eagles in Alvaro Quiros’s rollercoasters second round, at the par<b>4 11</b>th and par<b>5 8</b>th, which also included<b>3 </b>birdies and<b>5 </b>bogeys

<b>95 </b>– The yardage of Quiros’ wedge that he holed at<b>11</b>

<b>4 </b>– Shots Martin Kaymer was over par through<b>6 </b>holes on Saturday

<b>1 </b>– Shots under par he was on signing his card

<b>21 </b>– The number of holes it took Phil Mickelson to card his first birdie of the tournament

<b>9 </b>– Nationalities in the top ten following the second round

<b>72 </b>– Players to make the cut on level par or better

<b>400 </b>– Birdies on day two

<b>4 </b>– Eagles during Friday’s play; there were only<b>5 </b>in total last year

<b>14 </b>– The hardest hole on the course in the second round, the par<b>4 </b>averaged at<b>4.22 </b>and only conceded<b>11 </b>birdies all day

<b>8 </b>– The easiest hole on Friday, the par<b>5 </b>averaged at<b>4.74 </b>and yielded<b>2 </b>eagles and<b>40 </b>birdies

<b>27 </b>– The amount of shots between first and last place