Just six teams broke par in the first-round foursomes and despite stronger winds at Kingston Heath on day two, all 28 teams managed to get into the red for their second round fourballs.

But the Danes went lower than anyone expected. They turned a three-shot first round deficit into a three-stroke second round lead courtesy of two eagles and eight birdies in a brilliant bogey-free display.

Their first eagle came at the par-4 3rd hole when Kjeldsen holed his second shot from 139 metres, using a 6-iron into the stiff wind. Olesen added an eagle of his own at the par-5 8th hole when he chipped in from beside the green.

“It was great,” Olesen said. “I feel like we both were playing well actually.

“We kept the ball in play all the time and Soren got it started by holing that second shot … it was amazing. Then I chipped in for eagle as well [laughs] … we did very well today.

“Obviously 60 (is good) but would have been fun to shoot 59.”

Olesen chipped in for eagle during Denmark's round of 60. PHOTO: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images.

Olesen admitted he started thinking about the magical 59 with a few holes to play, but didn’t mention anything to his partner.

“I definitely thought about it with three or four holes to play,” Olesen said. “I actually didn’t know what the par was on this course but I thought 13 under would definitely make it.

“I had it on my mind but I was still trying to play the same golf and keep on being aggressive. Unfortunately we came up one short, but Soren hit an amazing shot on 18 and it was a great way to finish.”

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The pair did combine beautifully despite having very different styles of play. Kjeldsen is straight and reliable, or in his words “I’m like a train, I arrive on time but without too much of the flashy stuff.”

The flashy stuff belongs to his young teammate. Olesen leaves little of his 175cm tall (5’9”) frame in his shoes when he drives, but still possesses the soft hands required to scramble well around Kingston Heath’s greens.

Olesen barely missed a drive during the second round and the one that he says “came out of the toe” carried the fairway bunkers down the left side of the 18th fairway and bounded towards the green from the downslope. It rolled to a stop 371 metres (406 yards) from the tee.

Kjeldsen says he is steady and reliable like an on time train. PHOTO: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images.

“I was driving it pretty short and straight. I was in the fairway the whole time,” Kjeldsen said. “Then Thorbjorn can get up and feel nice and loose and rip it our there, so it worked out.”

The Danes, longing for a maiden World Cup title, won’t be taking their foot off the accelerator in the third round, which switches back to the foursome format.

“It’s dangerous to be too conservative in foursomes,” Kjeldsen said. “You still have to shoot a score.

“I think both days so far we’ve had a nice, positive and aggressive attitude and that shouldn’t change tomorrow.”

China’s Ashun Wu and Haotong Li are the surprise team to be in outright second midway through the Cup. Wu and Li are at nine under after carding a second round 65 and are three strokes adrift of Denmark. First round leaders Spain (Rafa Cabrera-Bello and Jon Rahm) are a further shot back at eight under.