Seth Reeves leads after Round 2 at BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX

Things to Know

• Seth Reeves cards a 7-under 64 at Thornblade Club for the outright 36-hole lead, his second career 36-hole lead/co-lead on the Korn Ferry Tour (T1/2020 Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance/finished T3)
• Ryan Gerard (T2/-13) sits inside the top five through 36 holes for the fifth time this season and is seeking his first Korn Ferry Tour win
• Billy Kennerly (T2/-13) cards career-low 9-under 62 in the second round and stands inside the top five through 36 holes for the first time since the 2020 LECOM Suncoast Classic
• Six-time PGA TOUR winner and 2011 FedExCup champion Bill Haas (T2/-13) cards back-to-back bogey-free rounds and sits two strokes off the lead in his first Korn Ferry Tour start since 2022
• In his 132nd start on the Korn Ferry Tour, Brandon Harkins records the low round of the day with a career-low in 11-under 60, climbing 123 places on the leaderboard to set a Korn Ferry Tour record for the largest position change from Round 1 to Round 2 in Korn Ferry Tour history

Seth Reeves (1st/15-under)

• Cards a 7-under 64 at Thornblade Club via six birdies and one eagle against one bogey
• Opens the second round with three consecutive birdies on Nos. 1-3, and closed out the round with an eagle-birdie-par-birdie finish on Nos. 15-18
• Second-round 64 ties his lowest round of the season (R1/BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX, R3/LECOM Suncoast Classic)
• Marks the second 36-hole lead/co-lead of his Korn Ferry Tour career and first since 2020 (T1/Korn Ferry Tour Championship presented by United Leasing & Finance/finished T3)
• Making his fourth start at the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by TD SYNNEX
  • Best finish came in 2021 when he finished T13; missed the cut in 2017 and 2018
• In 11 starts this season, has two top-25s, with his best finish being a T10 at the AdventHealth Championship
• Has one Korn Ferry Tour title which came at the 2020 Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse
• Spent two seasons on the PGA TOUR (2018-19 and 2021-22) and made 52 total starts, tallying three top-25s, including two top-10s at the Sanderson Farms Championship (T7/2018, T8/2021)
• Turned professional in 2014 after playing collegiately at Georgia Tech (2010-14) where he earned All-America honors and recorded three individual wins

Quotables

Seth Reeves on his biggest learning experience over the past few years… “Golf is hard, life's hard, but you've just got to persevere really. It's pretty tough to get to the Tour twice and then still play poorly and really be friends with some of the best players in the world and watch them do their thing and then you kind of struggle. Then really to be on a medical last year was pretty tough as well. Then our twins were born, so I'm kind of at home taking care of little babies while all my buddies are making birdies. Yeah, just thankful for finally just some good play, to see some things turn around. Really, just to find kind of my game again. I've just been searching for a long time and it's nice to kind of have‑ some conviction for that.”

Reeves on his partner, Brian Baumgartner, making the cut… “Coming down No. 18 we kind of looked at each other like, hey, let's finish this off. It was really cool for me to make one for myself, but for him, too. For him to just be excited to just get one more birdie to hopefully put us over the edge there… It's what's so cool about golf is you have these celebrities that are so good in other areas of life that we kind of look up to them, but then they look up to us, they look up to us for what we do. It's kind of cool to see him competing versus just doing what he does as an actor or a podcast host or stuff like that. It's really cool to see the joy that golf brings people.”

Bill Haas on playing in his hometown event… “I don't know. I think when I was super young, for one ... I'm definitely still Jay Haas' son, but I think I was more so that then a little bit. And I hadn't done anything in the game of golf, so there was... it's not pressure, it's just that acknowledgment, I guess. Now I think people acknowledge that I've played good golf in the past, so certainly don't want to come here and show up and, you know, really struggle. I don't know, there's that little bit of added pressure that flows into your head a little bit, I really want to do well this week in front of some people that I care about. For whatever reason, back then maybe I was just young enough where it was just mom and dad I was trying to impress.”

Additional Player Notes

• Korn Ferry Tour rookie Marcus Byrd (T5/-12) records the lowest round of his Korn Ferry Tour career with a bogey-free 8-under 63
  • In 2023, won four events on the APGA Tour to finish first in the Lexus Cup Standings
  • Earned conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour this season via a T64 finish at Final Stage of 2023 PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry
• In his 13th start of the season, Cristobal Del Solar (T5/-12) cards a 6-under 66 at Carolina Country Club and is inside the top five through 36 holes for the fourth time this year (recorded top-five finishes in two of the previous three instances)
• Cooper Dossey (T7/-11) cards his second-lowest round of the season with an 8-under 64 (best: 62/Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard) and is inside the top 10 through 36 holes for the third time this season
• The No. 1 finisher in the inaugural PGA TOUR University Class of 2021 John Pak (T9/-10)cards a 4-under 67 at Thornblade Club, highlighted by three birdies in his last four holes (Nos. 15, 16, 18); he sits inside the top 10 after 36 holes for the first time this season
• Brandon Harkins (T14/-9) cards the low round of the day with a bogey-free 11-under 60 at Thornblade Club via nine birdies and one eagle at the 549-yard par-5 second
  • In his 132nd start on the Korn Ferry Tour,marksa new career-low round, topping his previous best of 62 (R2/2022 LECOM Suncoast Classic)
• William Moll (T48/-5), who finished No. 6 in the 2024 PGA TOUR University Ranking, makes the cut in his professional and Korn Ferry Tour debut; he is the only one of the five PGA TOUR University Class of 2024 members in the field to make the cut