Conor Purcell makes the cut while Nacho Elvira leads Soudal Open

Ireland's Conor Purcell will be involved in the weekend's rounds at the Soudal Open after he was just inside the cut of three under at the halfway point of the Belgian event.

Purcell was unable to match his opening round 67 and two double bogeys saw him sweat it out in the clubhouse as to whether he would make the cut, but his round of 72 was just enough to make the weekend.

Spain's Nacho Elvira is setting the pace on 14 under after a second successive 64.

Elvira, who won the Cazoo Open at Celtic Manor in 2021, said: "I'm very, very happy. It was a quite similar round to yesterday, I think I played very consistent and I putted really well so I'm extremely happy.

"It's a course that I like, it suits my eye off the tee maybe a little better than other courses and I'm lucky enough to be putting well so hopefully I can take advantage."

France's Romain Langasque lies three shots off the lead on 11 under, while New Zealand's Sam Jones, who made an albatross in his opening 62, added a second round of 70 to share fourth place on 10 under.

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England's Ross Fisher lies a shot off the lead as he bids to end a 10-year victory drought. Fisher carded a second round of 63 at Rinkven International for a halfway total of 13 under par.

"It was a great day," said former Ryder Cup player Fisher, who won the last of his five DP World Tour titles to date in the Tshwane Open in 2014.

"We were quite lucky with the weather, we got nine holes of decent weather, wasn't any breeze and no rain and I played pretty steady on the back nine, our front nine.

"Then strung together four birdies in a row which was very nice and then unfortunately the showers started on the front nine so that made it a little tricky.

"I was kind of battling away, made