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Rory McIlroy put his late lapse on the opening day firmly behind him with a stunning round of 66 on day two of the Masters at Augusta National.

McIlroy made double-bogeys on the par-five 15th and par-four 17th on Thursday to undo an excellent opening round and leave him on level par entering Friday - seven behind first-round leader, Justin Rose of England.

But McIlroy made up for all of that with a majestic six-under-par round on Friday, doing most of the damage on a memorable back-nine run that saw him come home in just 31 strokes.

After an opening par, McIlroy had to work hard to birdie the par-five second and proceeded them to make seven straight pars, turning in one-under-par overall.

However, stunning approaches to the 10th and 11th gave him back-to-back birdies and got him moving before, having parred the short 12th, he kicked into high gear with a fabulous - if slightly fortunate - eagle on the 13th.

He then birdied the 15th and parred his way home to leave him two behind Rose, who shot a solid 71 to remain leader by one, on eight-under-par.

That birdie on 15 coupled with a par on 17 meant McIlroy had played those two holes five strokes better than yesterday.

"Overall I'm just really proud of myself with how I responded after the finish last night," McIlroy said after his round.

"I just had to remind myself I played really good golf yesterday and was not going to let two bad holes dictate the narrative for the rest of the week.

"Once I left the property I tried to leave what had happened here. I rushed home to see (daughter) Poppy before she went to bed and I feel like I did a good job of resetting.

"I had a good conversation with Bob Rotella (sports psychologist) about not pushing too hard too early, just tried to stay