John Pak takes solo lead into weekend at Compliance Solutions Championship

Things to Know

• John Pak earns first 36-hole lead/co-lead of his Korn Ferry Tour career after a second-round 6-under 66
• 12 players are T5 or better and within three strokes of the lead, including 2024 Korn Ferry Tour winners Steven Fisk and Jeremy Paul
• Logan McAllister cards a bogey-free 2-under 70 and is the only player bogey-free after 36 holes
• 70 players made the 36-hole cut at 5-under
• Third-round tee times will run from 6:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. local time

Second-round lead notes

0 – Second-round leaders/co-leaders to win the Compliance Solutions Championship

4 – Second-round leaders/co-leaders to win on Tour in 2024

John Pak (Leader/-14)

• Sets the 36-hole low score at the Compliance Solutions Championship with a 14-under 130 (previously; Alan Wagner, Davis Chatfield, Tim Widing/12-under 132/2023)
• Cards a 6-under 66 in the second round, making seven birdies (No. 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17) against one bogey (No. 17)
• Opened the tournament with an 8-under 64, highlighted by an eagle on the par-5 17th and eight birdies (Nos. 3, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 18) dropping shots on both the par-4 13th and 16th
• First 36-hole lead/co-lead of his Korn Ferry Tour career in his 28th career start
• Owns five made cuts in 11 starts this season with three top-25 finishes and a top-10
  • Best finish; Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club/T3
• 15 career starts on the PGA TOUR with three made cuts
• In 2023, made 10 starts on PGA TOUR Canada, now PGA TOUR Americas, with seven made cuts, including a win at the Elk Ridge Saskatchewan Open presented by Brandt
• Finished No. 1 in the inaugural PGA TOUR University Class of 2021
• Finished as Low Amateur at the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, which was his first major championship appearance
• Played collegiately for four seasons at Florida State University (2017-21), winning eight times as an individual and garnering All-America honors all four seasons (first-team selection in 2019 and 2021, second-team honoree in 2020, and third-team selection in 2018)
• Swept the three NCAA Division I national player of the year awards -- Jack Nicklaus Award, Ben Hogan Award, Fred Haskins Award -- in 2021, becoming the sixth player to sweep those honors since the creation of all three awards
• Competed on the winning 2019 and 2021 Walker Cup teams

Quotables

John Pak on his past experiences at Jimmie Austin OU Golf Club… “I actually played here before. I played two tournaments in junior golf and in college here, so I'm quite familiar with the course. Yeah, I do think it fits my game pretty well. I think you've got to do everything pretty well, you can't BS your way, you've got to hit fairways and greens. It's pretty tough off the tee I thought and that's usually one of my strong suits, so I've been keeping the ball in play pretty well out here. I think it suits my game pretty well.”

Pak on his play so far this season… “I'm pretty happy about it. I'm kind of just taking it tournament by tournament. I'm really not, like I said, putting expectations on myself, or limitations. Kind of just, I don't know, going with the flow, I guess.”

Cooper Jones on his expectations in his first Korn Ferry Tour start… “Honestly, I don't think I gave myself much expectation. I think I wanted to make the cut. I had the last tee time on the first day and I was waking up and looking at the leaderboard, saw some guys 3 under through three, 6 under through eight, I think that kind of was the mindset where it's different in college where you've got to be all gas the whole time. So that helped me just get off to a birdie birdie start and I kept going. I haven't been super nervous and I kind of expected a little nerves, so that's good. It's all gas.”

Jones on being in contention heading into the weekend… “Yeah, nerves might start rolling in as I get close to the top of the leaderboard, but like I said, I think it's just all gas. I'm playing well. The driver's a little shaky, the putter's really good, mid irons are really good. So I think I'll hit a few balls on the range, see if I can straighten out that driver a little bit, keep playing how I am.”

Notes

• Jack Maguire (2nd/-13), making his 12th start of the 2024 campaign, records a bogey-free 6-under 66, capping off the round with back-to-back birdies on the par-5 17th and short par-4 18th
  • Maguire posted a 7-under 65 in Thursday’s opening round, matching his lowest round to par this year (Veritex Bank Championship/R3)
• 20-year-old Cooper Jones (T3/-12) cards a second consecutive 6-under 66 to make the cut in his first career Korn Ferry Tour start
• Trevor Cone (T3/-12), who teed off on hole No. 10, closed out his round with three straight birdies (Nos. 7, 8, 9) en route to bogey-free 7-under 65
  • The Charlotte, North Carolina, native enters the week No. 31 on the Korn Ferry Tour Points List with six top-25 finishes and three top-10s in 13 starts
• Steven Fisk (T5/-11), who currently sits No. 5 on the Points List, records a bogey-free 6-under 66 in Friday’s second round; he is bogey-free in his last 34 holes
  • Earned his first career Korn Ferry Tour victory earlier this season at the 2024 Club Car Championship at The Landings Golf & Athletic Club,
• 2024 Korn Ferry Tour winner Jeremy Paul (T5/-11) matches his career low-round with a bogey-free 9-under 63 (twice; 2022 Utah Championship presented by Zions Bank and Intermountain Health/R1, 2022 UNC Health Championship presented by STITCH)
  • The University of Colorado product matches Thomas Walsh (R1/2024), Davis Chatfield (R2/2023) and Josh Creel (R2/2023) for the single-round low score in tournament history
• Second-year member Jacob Solomon (T5/-11), who finished No. 66 on the 2023 Points List, records his lowest round to par on the season with a 6-under 66
• Oklahoma City native Logan McAllister (T13/-10) posts a bogey-free 2-under 70 and is the only player bogey-free heading into the weekend
• First-round leader Thomas Walsh (T13/-10) follows up his opening round 9-under 63 with a 1-under 71, making three birdies (Nos. 3, 10, 13) against two bogeys (Nos. 6, 8)
• Davis Shore (T39/-6) bounces back from a first-round 1-over 73 with a bogey-free 7-under 65 to climb 90 positions on the leaderboard and get inside the cut line at 6-under