Branden Grace holds a commanding five-shot lead after posting a second-round 67 in the Dunhill Links Championship at St Andrews on Friday.
German Martin Kaymer, the man who sank the all-important putt for Jose Maria Olazabal's side in Chicago, is doing best of the three returning heroes, but he is down in 56th place on three-under - 14 strokes adrift.
Swede Peter Hanson is one further back, but Paul Lawrie is joint 129th on one-over - and only the top 60 and ties survive the cut after Saturday's third round.
The one thing in their favour is that they still have St Andrews to play whereas Grace has Carnoustie to come and that is by far the stiffest test of the three.
Fight to survive cut
Also in a fight to stay around for Sunday's closing 18 holes at St Andrews are Open champion Ernie Els on one-under, twice winner Padraig Harrington on level-par and last year's Open winner Darren Clarke, who is alongside Lawrie.
The Scot is playing with his 17-year-old son Craig and did not mind admitting that the scratch-handicapper outscored him in the second round, albeit off forward tees.
"He played lovely and was four-under on his own ball - I'm very proud of him," said the 1999 Open champion, who had to be content with a two-under 70 himself.
Paul Casey is another on three-under, but the former world number three will remember the day for two unusual incidents - a dog running off with his ball and swimming star Michael Phelps holing a 50-yard putt.
Casey was on the green in two at Kingsbarns' long 12th - his third - when the dog took the ball "off up the hill toward the 13th tee".
He added: "I had that moment of panic where I thought I'd have to play it where Digby - he had his name on his collar - left it, but we placed it back as close as we could to where we thought it originally was".
Grace had no such dramas, but was glad the format allowed him to switch courses following his 60.
"It would have been a hard situation if I had to play Kingsbarns again after shooting lights out. Getting to St Andrews I didn't know what to expect.
"I struggling a bit in the beginning, but then my putter started getting hot again."
He had four successive birdies around the turn. Sjoholm matched the round, while over at Carnoustie Olesen had six birdies and three bogeys for a 69.
Leading British player is Graeme Storm, round in 66 at the Home of Golf to reach 10-under and joint fifth place.
