Justin Rose was content with his two-under 70 in the second round of the Masters and is hoping to make further progress up the leaderboard on 'moving day' on Saturday.
The world No 5, who lost out to Sergio Garcia in a play-off at Augusta National last year, is also two-under for the tournament following a round which contained six birdies and three bogeys.
"Yeah, I'm pleased with it," he said. "I saw some signs of better putting. I think today I made some really good putts, I felt more comfortable on the greens. I freed up my stroke a little bit. That was good.
"I still made a couple of mistakes here and there, but it was kind of where it was tough not to make mistakes. It was fairly breezy out there. It was fairly low humidity throughout the day. The greens got pretty crusty."
Rose carded a 67 in the third round last year, a score he also posted at the same stage in 2015 when he tied for second place behind Jordan Spieth.
The Englishman added: "I think over the last few years I've played good Saturdays to get into the final group. And tomorrow is moving day for that purpose. And hopefully I can come out tomorrow strong, and put myself right in there on Sunday."
Rose is two shots ahead of European No 1 Tommy Fleetwood who recorded a second successive level-par 72 to sit in a tie for 18th place.
Danny Willett, the 2016 champion, missed the cut for the second successive year after bogeying the final two holes for a four-over 76 which left him on seven over, two outside the cut mark at five over.
He said: "I have a lot of good positives to take from the week and how we played and, but, yeah, things just didn't quite fall into place today.
"You talk about luck, hit a pretty good one on the 18th, gets a bad bounce, goes in the bunker, you get a terrible lie, and it's one of them things that I think if things aren't going your way, they're not quite going your way."
There was better news for English quartet Ian Poulter (75), Tyrrell Hatton (75), Matthew Fitzpatrick (74) and Paul Casey (75) who all just made the cut as they finished up on five over.
But Ross Fisher (74) and amateur Harry Ellis (80) will join Willett in having the weekend off.