After ending the first round of the Jones Cup Invitational with a one-shot lead, Notre Dame’s Palmer Jackson hoped he could stay at the top. Not only did he do that to end the second round, but he ended the day with a bigger lead than what he started with. He shot a 2-under-par 69 and now has a five-stroke lead with a score of 9-under for the championship.
Jackson made four birdies and two bogeys in the second round, but it was the struggles of second-place golfer Michael Brennan of Wake Forest that really opened things up. Brennan shot a 1-over 73 for the round as he bogeyed five times, wiping off the progress made by his four birdies. With such a big lead, it’s Jackson’s tournament to lose.
Davis Chatfield, Notre Dame’s other golfer in the field, finished with an even 72. He overcome a double bogey and bogey on the fourth and fifth holes to birdie three times the rest of the way. At 2-over for the tournament, he is in a four-way tie for 20th.
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