Rory McIlroy surged up the leaderboard after recording a second- round score of 67 at the Irish Open, while Christiaan Bezuidenhout currently finds himself in T5.
McIlroy is five under par at the halfway point as the Northern Ireland star followed up his first-round score of 72 with an impressive second day.
Bezuidenhout recorded a second round on four under to form part of the chasing pack along with Richard Bland, Adrian Otaegui and Johannes Veerman.
McIlroy feels he could have done even better after surging through his first 10 holes in five under before eight successive pars.
“I got off to a better start and once you do that, you make a couple of birdies early, you start to feel like you can make a few more,” McIlroy said.
“The greens were much better this morning than they were yesterday afternoon as well, so it felt a little easier to hole putts and that’s really what I did.”
