Gurugram, March 27 -- On a golf course where par is considered a player's friend, Casey Jarvis shot nine birdies in his second round for a scintillating eight-under, and yet could not wrest the Day Two clubhouse lead from Hero Indian Open defending champion Eugenio Chacarra.
This is the aura of the DLF Golf and Country Club, and Jarvis showed how to come to terms with its reputation by stamping his class as the man in form. Recovering from the opening one-over 73 on Thursday, it was a sublime show by the South African for Friday's best round, and Jarvis is now poised for a rare piece of history on the DP World Tour.
Several pitfalls lie in wait, and so do players like Chacarra, who is out to make it a historic double, but Jarvis looks det...