However, DataGolf.com currently predicts that there is a 41% probability of the cut line being (-1), a 40% chance of (-2) being the cut with just a 9.5% of the cut being (-3). 74 players from the original field of 126 are expected to advance to participate in Saturday and Sunday’s final round of the tournament.

Matthew Baldwin was setting an unexpectedly hot pace at the BMW PGA Championship after shooting 6-under 66 to establish a three-stroke clubhouse lead midway through the second round of the European tour’s flagship event on Friday.

The 38-year-old Baldwin shot 6-under 66 to set an unexpectedly hot pace at the BMW PGA Championship at 13 under, which tied the prestigious tournament’s 36-hole record. Many of Europe's top players – including Rory McIlroy, who shot 68 to be four strokes off the lead – were having a hard time getting near him.

Matthew Baldwin was driving Amazon vans just two years ago but now the Englishman has a two-shot lead heading into the weekend at the BMW PGA Championship

Matt Baldwin takes a two-shot lead at the BMW PGA Championship after equalling the tournament record over the first two rounds.

England’s Matt Baldwin set a daunting clubhouse target on a weather-affected day two of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Baldwin, who held a one-shot lead overnight, added a second round of 66 to his opening 65 for a halfway total of 13 under par,

Unheralded Englishman Matt Baldwin matched a tournament record to take a two-shot lead at the European Tour's PGA Championship on 13 under par on Friday. But the world number 363 is now in pole position to claim the first prize of £1.