Davis Chatfield holds 36-hole lead at suspended The Panama Championship

The second round was suspended due to darkness at 6:25 p.m. ET and will resume Saturday at 8 a.m., with 10 players needing to complete the second round. The 36-hole cut, currently projected at 1-over 141, will be made upon conclusion of the second round Saturday morning. Third-round tee times are expected to run from 9:30-11:30 a.m. off the first and 10th tees.

Charting the leader

Davis Chatfield (first/-8)

• Third-year member holds third 36-hole lead/co-lead in what is his 52nd career start on the Korn Ferry Tour (T1/2025 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club/finished T7; T1/2023 Compliance Solutions Championship/finished T17)
• Ties the second-lowest opening 36-hole score in the last seven playings of The Panama Championship (2018-25; Taylor Pendrith/131/2020; Taylor Montgomery/132/2022)
• Recorded missed cuts in each of his previous two appearances at The Panama Championship (2023, 2024)
• Logged his fourth career top-10 in his most recent Korn Ferry Tour start (T7/2025 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club)
• Finished in the top 75 of the Korn Ferry Tour Points List in each of his first two seasons on the Korn Ferry Tour (No. 62/2023, No. 44/2024)
• Earned Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time via a T39 finish at Final Stage of 2022 Korn Ferry Tour Qualifying Tournament (now known as PGA TOUR Q-School presented by Korn Ferry)
• Played five seasons at University of Notre Dame (2017-22), where he was a 2022 All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection

Additional player notes

• Johnny Keefer (T2/7-under), who finished No. 1 in the 2024 Fortinet Cup standings on PGA TOUR Americas to earn Korn Ferry Tour membership for the first time, is in line to eclipse his season-high 36-hole position (T17/The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club).
• Sam Bennett (T2/7-under), who finished No. 31 on the 2024 Korn Ferry Tour Points List as a rookie (one spot outside of earning a PGA TOUR card), is in line to match his career-high 36-hole position in a Korn Ferry Tour event (T2/2024 Magnit Championship/finished T25).
• First-year Korn Ferry Tour member Neal Shipley (T4/-6) cards the low round of the day with a 7-under 63, tying the second-lowest 18-hole score in the last eight playings of The Panama Championship (2017-25; Chase Wright/62/Round 3/2020; Taylor Pendrith/63/Round 1/2020; Max McGreevy/63/Round 2/2020).
• The top-ranked player in the field and six-time Japan Golf Tour winner, Kensei Hirata (T4/-6), is in line to stand inside the top five through 36 holes for a third consecutive PGA TOUR-sanctioned start (T3/2025 Sony Open in Hawaii – PGA TOUR/finished T21; T4/2025 The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club – Korn Ferry Tour/finished T2).
• Korn Ferry Tour winner T.J. Vogel (T4/6-under), who was the last man into the 144-player field this week, is in line to stand T4 or higher through 36 holes for the fifth time in his Korn Ferry Tour career (most recent: T1/2024 Pinnacle Bank Championship presented by Woodhouse/finished T3).
• First-year Korn Ferry Tour member Brandon Berry (T4/6-under) is in line to stand inside the top five through 36 holes for a second consecutive start (T4/The Bahamas Great Abaco Classic at The Abaco Club/finished T48).