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Porsche Singapore Classic - Day two digest
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Porsche Singapore Classic - Day two digest

Everything you need to know from day two in Singapore.

Record-setter Andy Sullivan led a trio at the top, we were inches from perfection, Jordan Smith got a bad break and Stephen Gallacher was rolling back the years on day two of the Porsche Singapore Classic.

Here is everything you need to know from Friday at Laguna National Golf Resort Club.

Trio tied at the top

A course-record 63 from Andy Sullivan handed him a share of the lead alongside Freddy Schott and Richard Mansellheading into the weekend. In a round when scoring was generally more difficult than on day one, Sullivan bucked the trend to come home in 28 and get to nine under alongside fellow Englishman Mansell and German Schott, who both fired rounds of 69. Thai Kiradech Aphibarnrat had shared the first-round lead but a 72 dropped him into a tie for second, with 34 players within five shots of the lead. French duo Matthieu Pavon and Romain Langasque and English pair Sam Bairstow and Paul Waring were alongside Aphibarnrat at eight under.

Record-breaker Sully goes ballistic

Sullivan has never been scared to go low in his DP World Tour career, having carded two 61s and a 62, with this being his fifth round of 63. Starting on the tenth, he took advantage of two of the three par fives on the back nine but came to life from the first, picking up five shots in four holes before adding further gains on the sixth and eighth. That meant he played holes one to nine in nine shots fewer than on day one and the four-time DP World Tour winner was happy to get a reward for his solid play. "It was a weird one today," he said. "It felt very slow and a bit sluggish to start with and then I just went ballistic on the back nine. I felt like I played well yesterday without the score being there but golf being the crazy game that it is, it has a way of rewarding you sometimes."

Almost aces

There was some stellar play on the par threes as first Rasmus Højgaard,

And then Matthew Southgate came close to the perfect shot.

No putter required

Gallacher has still got it at 49.

How's your luck?

It was a perfect drive from Smith - until it wasn't. Ouch.

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