Lucas Bjerregaard & Stefano Mazzoli tied at the top

Lucas Bjerregaard fired a second-round, 5-under 67 featuring six birdies and one bogey to move into a share of the lead at 11-under at the Estrella Damm Catalunya Championship.

Twice a DP World Tour champion, the Dane is playing in his third event of the season. He has admitted to struggling over the past few years, finishing 145th in last year’s Race to Dubai Rankings but seems comfortable with his playing this week.

“There was a couple of stressful situations I put myself in, but other than that, I gave myself a lot of good looks and putted nicely and took advantage of the chances I had. So yeah, it’s nice. It’s been a while since I’ve been on top of the leaderboard, but yeah, that’s always nice.

“I’m trying to take a little different approach to it this year and take it a little more as it comes. I’ve been stressing a lot about golf for the last many years, and I’m trying to be a bit… I’m not really sure how to put it, but just take everything a little bit lighter and go, yeah, as we go.

“I mean, I think that’s the thing I’ve figured out about golf in the last five years is that, you know, it was good today, it was good yesterday, but you never know about tomorrow, you never know about next week. So I’m kind of not trying to put too much on these last couple of rounds, but I’m obviously very happy to be where I am and hopefully that can continue for a couple more days.”

Stefano Mazzoli set the early clubhouse lead with a flawless 67. The Italian rookie secured his Tour card with a top-8 finish on the 2025 Road to Mallorca Rankings but has missed seven of his last nine cuts.

“I am pretty pleased with how I played today, and yesterday, I am really relieved in how I was able to keep calm on the course and control myself,” said Mazzoli.

“I wasn’t really able to do that the past few weeks and that was how you step up and the most important thing for me.”

Yurav Premlall fired a bogey-free 64, the lowest round of his DP World Tour career, to head into the weekend in third place at 10-under. His best finish so far this season was 31st at the Hero Indian Open.

“It was very good, very solid,” said the South African. “I just kept hitting a lot of quality shots throughout the whole day. Quite a slow start but just managed to hang in there for the first six holes, and stuck to my game plan quite well, gave myself plenty of chances and the putter got warm for the first time in a while, so nice to see the score on the board today.

“I was very happy with the finish, it was very solid the whole day like I said, just stayed patient and eventually the score came to me. We all know what is at stake. There is a lot at stake for me and the position I am in, so I am not really looking at that, just one shot at a time trying to stick to the process throughout the next 36 holes and see what will happen from there.”

“I am changing a little bit technically, but to be honest just attitude and thinking a different way, being more positive and all that comes with that. Obviously, I am changing a couple things because when things don’t go your way, you look for something different, but I think the attitude and how I stayed on the course was the biggest change this week. I struggled a little bit at first and for me it is just proving to myself that I am good enough.”

Related: Forecasting Furyk — fitting finale or failing flop?

2027 Ryder Cup / Adare Manor

For the latest news in the golfing world, follow us on X.