Justin Rose stormed into contention for the Volvo Masters title at Valderrama yesterday.

The 22-year-old Hampshire player was in a tie for second place going down the last but like Thursday, the tight dog-legged finishing hole, with its intrusive cork trees, caught him out.

He picked up an unwelcome bogey five, only his second dropped shot of the day, but remained in good shape, tied for sixth place and only one shot behind a four-way tie for second place involving Robert Karlsson, Colin Montgomerie, Sergio Garcia and Bradley Dredge.

Angel Cabrera remained in the lead but, after double-bogeying the infamous 17th, the Argentinian's advantage had been whittled down to four shots.

Rose made his move after a dropping a shot at the seventh to go to one over. It galvanised the four-times winner this year into producing some of his best form for months and he went surging up the leaderboard with birdies at the eighth, ninth, 11th and 12th holes.

He'd made the biggest move of the entire field while some first round high-fliers, like Philip Price, came back to him, the Welshman slipping from four under to two under to join Rose in sixth place.

Padraig Harrington was losing the battle with Retief Goosen to top the European order of merit. Another poor day, riddled with bogies, saw the Irishman fall back to 48th place at eight over, three behind Goosen who wasn't exactly lighting any fires either.