Dredge soars into halfway lead in Denmark

The 43-year-old carded a five-under-par second round of 66 to sit atop the leaderboard on 13 under overall, three strokes clear of Swede Joakim Lagergren. Belgian Thomas Pieters, playing with European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke, continued his bid for a wildcard place for the matches that start at Hazeltine next month with a level-par 71 to stay well in contention. Northern Irishman Clarke must have been impressed by Pieters' excellent scrambling skills, which he displayed with a sensational greenside bunker shot on the 18th after an earlier chip-in for par.

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