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These notables are in danger of missing the cut after first day of the 2024 U.S. Open

These players have work to do.

The first round of the 2024 U.S. Open is in the books, and we’re ever closer to crowning a champion at Pinehurst No. 2.

Before we get to that point, there has to be a cut, which is the top-60 and ties at the U.S. Open. The USGA’s championship is smack in the middle of the majors when it comes to weekend cuts. The PGA Championship and Open Championship each allow the top-70 and ties to play the weekend while the Masters, which has the smallest field of the majors, is the top-50 and ties.

And after the opening day at the U.S. Open, there are plenty of notables who have work to do come Friday to make the weekend.

Pinehurst No. 2 is playing like a typical U.S. Open. Firm, fast, and there were plenty of scores over par on the opening day. Don’t expect there to be more birdies than bogeys over the next three days.

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After the opening day of play, the cut is projected at 2 over with 64 players in position to play the weekend. Here’s who is on the outside looking in.

The 2022 U.S. Open champion played alongside Tiger Woods and Will Zalatoris in the opening round and had the best round of the group. But he has work to do to avoid only his second missed cut at the U.S. Open.

The defending U.S. Open champion has some work to do come Friday to make the cut, though he’s not too far back. He had only one birdie and four bogeys in the opening round while struggling with his irons, hitting only nine greens.

Big Cat is making his first U.S. Open start since 2020, but a poor stretch in the middle of his round that included five bogeys in seven holes means he has work to do.

The 2016 U.S. Open champion had five bogeys before his lone birdie of the day.

Many may forget Zalatoris came a couple shots away from possibly having two major titles in 2022. He has been up and down since return from back surgery, but a 5-over performance on Thursday has him behind the 8-ball.

Thomas, a two-time major champion, had nine bogeys in his first round, though two birdies helped offset the damage just a bit.

Considering Theegala was 7 over thru 6 holes, shooting even par the next 12 is a huge bonus. Possibly it’s some momentum heading into Friday?

It seemed as if Hovland may have figured out his slow start to the season with his strong showing at the PGA Championship. But on Thursday, he had as many doubles as birdies and had a lot of bogeys, too. The 78 is his worst round in a U.S. Open.

Mickelson has six runner-up finishes at the U.S. Open, the one major he hasn’t won in his career. And after one round, it’s likely that’s not happening this year after as many bogeys as pars (9 each) in the first round. He beat only two players Thursday.

Tiger Woods will miss 2024 PGA Championship cut thanks to horrendous three-hole stretch on Friday

Woods is eight shots off the cut line and 19 behind the leader.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Tiger Woods is heading home early.

The 15-time major champion will miss the weekend cut at the 2024 PGA Championship after a lackluster 6-over 77 on Friday in the second round at Valhalla Golf Club that was doomed from the start. Woods walked off the course at 7 over for the tournament, eight shots off the cut.

“The week, it was a great week being here, being here at Valhalla, and unfortunately my scores did not indicate how the people treated me and how great a week I had,” Woods said after his round. “Unfortunately, I hit too many shots.”

This week’s major championship is being held in Kentucky but Woods took a brief visit to Los Angeles on his scorecard with his 7-4-7 stretch of triple-bogey-triple that derailed his round from the jump on Nos. 2-4.

“Well, I got off to bad start and the rough grabbed me at 2. No sand in the bunker as well. Just made a mistake there. I compounded the problem there at 4,” Woods explained after his round. “Just kept making mistakes and things you can’t do, not just in tournaments but in majors especially. And I just kept making them. I hung around for most of the day but unfortunately the damage was done early.”

He did well to fight back and earn some honor with a pair of birdies on Nos. 7 and 8, but gave those right back with consecutive squares thanks to bogeys on Nos. 11 and 12. Woods hopped on board the par train on Nos. 13-17 and made a consolation birdie at the last to seal the deal for his trunk-slam finish at 7 over par, eight shots off the cut and a whopping 19 off the lead.

The score is frustrating, but what will really irk Woods will be the fact that it wasn’t his body that gave up on him today. It was his game. He wasn’t limping. He wasn’t grimacing and constantly stretching throughout the round. He just wasn’t dialed with his approaches or short game. Simple as that.

Despite the poor showing, the 48-year-old Woods is still confident his game will continue to improve. In due course, that is.

“I just got to — I need to play more. Unfortunately, I just haven’t played a whole lot of tournaments, and not a whole lot of tournaments on my schedule either,” he said. “Hopefully everything will somehow come together in my practice sessions at home and be ready for Pinehurst.”

The next time we should expect to see Woods will be at the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, June 13-16. The warm summer temperature in the Sandhills of North Carolina should be like an incubator for Woods’ surgically repaired body that’s held together by pins and screws, and the course should give Tiger an advantage due to his ability to get creative with various shots. That said, his lack of tournament reps and performances so far this year shouldn’t give fans too high of expectations.

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Anthony Kim misses first cut in 12 years at Asian Tour event in China

Kim missed the cut by eight shots.

In Anthony Kim’s first event back with a 36-hole cut, he didn’t make the weekend.

After back-to-back weeks playing for the no-cut events at LIV Golf in Jeddah and Hong Kong, Kim teed it up this week on the Asian Tour at the International Series Macau in China, continuing his return to professional golf. However, a 4-over 74 in the opening round followed by an even-par 70 on Friday resulted in Kim sitting T-130 after two rounds and missing the cut by eight shots.

It’s Kim’s first missed cut in more than 12 years (sarcasm font).

His final-round 65 in LIV Golf Hong Kong was an encouraging sign, but his comeback is going to take longer than a handful of rounds. He wasn’t the only LIV golfer to miss the cut at Macau, as did Harold Varner III, Graeme McDowell and Eugenio Chacarra.

On the flip side, LIV’s David Puig leads at 11 under after opening in 65-64. He’s tied on top with Jbe Kruger. Mito Pereira and Bjorn Hellgren are T-3 at 10 under.

6 notables among those who missed the cut at 2024 Cognizant Classic

Many golfers saw some wild fluctuations between their Thursday and Friday scores.

The field of 144 at the 2024 Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches is down to 68 after the cut came on Saturday morning at PGA National.

Play was halted for darkness after each of the first two rounds, and that meant 13 golfers had to return to the course Saturday morning to finish their second rounds. There were actually 14 who hadn’t played 36 holes by Friday night but Chandler Phillips withdrew with one hole to go. He was 6 over.

The tournament, in its first year with a new name, has $9 million up for grabs, with $1.62 million going to the winner. Chris Kirk is the defending champion and he’s tied for 24th. Bud Cauley is the solo leader after two days. He’s at 11 under. The cut was 2 under.

There is a slew of others not so lucky after a windy Friday at PGA National, many of due to some wild fluctuations between the score they signed for Thursday compared to their scores on Friday.

6 notable players who missed the cut at the PGA Tour’s 2024 Mexico Open at Vidanta

The field of 132 at the Mexico Open was reduced to 65 on Friday night after the cut came in at 2 under.

The field of 132 at the Mexico Open at Vidanta was reduced Friday night after the cut came in at 2 under, and that sent 65 players to Saturday’s third round.

It’s not the most star-studded field on the PGA Tour this season, but there were still some notable names among the 67 who failed to make the weekend at Vidanta Vallarta, a 7,456-yard golf course where Tony Finau – who is tied for ninth – is the defending champion.

Still up for grabs for those playing is the $1,458,000 first-place prize as well as a Masters invite, if one is not already secured by the man who hoists the trophy come Sunday.

Here’s a closer look at some who didn’t.

Rickie Fowler, Max Homa among notables who missed the cut at the 2024 WM Phoenix Open

The cut at TPC Scottsdale didn’t happen until nearly 2 p.m. local time Saturday.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Rain delays, frost delays, 4:30 a.m. alarm clocks, playing as many as 30 holes in one day and 20,000 drunk, screaming and often booing fans – and that’s just at 16 – this is a week where PGA Tour pros earned their paycheck at the WM Phoenix Open. Yet the 132-man field still must be whittled down, even if the 36-hole cut day extended to nearly 2 p.m. local time on Saturday thanks to multiple suspensions of play.

When it was all said and done, 73 players moved on for 36 more holes at TPC Scottsdale and a chance to take home the trophy as champion and more than seven figures in prize money. The total purse this week is $8.8 million, with $1.584 million going to the winner.

It took a score of 2-under 140 to make all that hard work and effort pay off into a paycheck in the Valley of the Sun.

Among those to sneak through on the number included Tom Kim, who rallied to shoot 5-under 66, Garrick High (67), Adam Scott (68), Brian Harman (69), Sungjae Im (70) and Zach Johnson (70).

Two of the three Monday qualifiers made it through in Jim Knous (66, T-34) — read his story here — and former Arizona State golfer Nicolo Galetti (67, T-34) as did Bud Cauley (-5, T-23), who made his first start since the 2020 Fortinet Championship. Kevin Chappell (68) made a 12-foot birdie putt at nine, his last hole of the day, to make the cut on the number.

But not everyone was so fortunate — Adam Svensson, for one, missed a birdie putt from 44 feet. Here’s a closer look at the notables who were sent packing at the WM Phoenix Open.

For these notable players to miss the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii, Aloha means goodbye

Here are the notables who missed the cut at the Sony Open.

HONOLULU — The PGA Tour season’s first full-field tournament also means its first 36-hole cut of the year, and it was a doozy.

All the same feels coming down the stretch on Friday with Joel Dahmen holding the weekend fate of 17 golfers who needed him to miss a 5-foot birdie putt at No. 9 or else they were all going home. He burned the right edge, saying afterward, “I hit a good putt. They should all give me money.”

Or maybe at least buy him a drink. It took a 36-hole aggregate of 2-under 138 at Waialae Country Club to make the cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, the 2022 champ here, made birdie at his final two holes to make the weekend while Lanto Griffin made birdie at his last to join him. In all, 82 players have a weekend tee time, the most of any 36-hole cut on Tour since the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic (84). Just seven strokes separate first and worst.

Here’s more on some of the players for whom aloha means goodbye.

With PGA Tour cards on the line, these pros missed the cut at 2023 RSM Classic

The cut at Sea Island Golf Club had more of a sense of finality for some.

ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. — A prominent swing instructor summed up why he could cut tension on the range at the RSM Classic with a rusty nail.

“Some of these guys don’t know whether they will ever tee it up at a PGA Tour event,” he said.

This week is the 54th and final Tour event of the 2022-23 season and so the 36-hole cut Friday had more of a sense of finality for some, especially those battling to make the top 125 and full status for next season or Nos. 126-150 and secure conditional status.

Peter Malnati, who entered the week at No. 116, shot 69-71 (140) and missed the cut and said he’ll be playing the waiting game all weekend. He’s projected No.122. Two three-putts in the first round was uncharacteristic of Malnati and the putter remained cold in the second round. But at least he had the right perspective.

“With or without a Tour card, I’m going to be awesome but I’d rather have one,” he said.

Harry Higgs, who started the week at No. 132 and had missed three straight cuts, made birdie on two of the last three holes to shoot 70 on Seaside Course and make the cut on the number.

All told, 78 golfers shot 4-under 138 or better at Sea Island’s Seaside and Plantation Courses. Higgs didn’t need anyone to let him know what what at stake when he made an 11-foot birdie putt on 18 at Seaside to make the cut.

“No, I know. I know it all too well after this year. Oddly, I wasn’t really that worried about it or focused on it,” he said. “For the last two years I’ve been stressing, worrying about all this shit. And for some reason, I don’t know why, I don’t know that I even said it aloud, I might have just thought it briefly, like I’m just not really going to worry about it this week.”

Patton Kizzire, who entered the week at No. 130, channeled the same philosophy and made birdie on his final two holes at the Plantation Course to make the cut and give himself two more rounds to jump up a few more spots. He’s projected No. 129.

Four players ranked between No. 120 and No. 126 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings entering the week missed the cut: No. 120 Matti Schmid, No. 121 Doug Ghim, No. 123 Troy Merritt and No. 126 Henrik Norlander.

Here’s more about them and some other pros who weren’t so fortunate and had their season come to a premature end. And here are the Saturday tee times for those who did make the weekend.

Golfers on FedEx Cup bubble highlight those to miss cut at Butterfield Bermuda Championship

Here’s a look at who’s likely packing after the cut becomes official at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

With only two events left until the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Fall is finished, golfers near the top 125 had only a couple more chances to improve their position and secure a card ahead of next year.

However, plenty of those went backward and are heading home for the weekend.

The Butterfield Bermuda Championship at Port Royal Golf Club is on to the weekend. The second round finished Saturday morning, and the cut was 5 under.

Among those expected to head home early are the U.S. Amateur champion, a former major champion, a 15-year-old Bermuda native and plenty of golfers searching for job security next year.

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Here’s a look at who’s packing their bags at the Butterfield Bermuda Championship.

Sahith Theegala, Michael Block among notables who missed cut at 2023 World Wide Technology Championship

For some players their chances to save their season and secure a card for next year are running out.

LOS CABOS, Mexico — As Yogi Berra once famously said, it’s getting late early.

There are just two more events in the FedEx Cup Fall portion of the schedule after this week. and for some players their chances to save their season and secure a card for next year are running out.

That’s why making the cut mattered to a player such as Peter Malnati, who started the week ranked No. 116 in the FedEx Cup and rallied with a bogey-free 6-under 66 to make the cut on the number.

Seventy-four players shot 5-under 139 or better to earn a tee time on the weekend.

The second round was suspended due to darkness at 5:52 p.m. local time (8:52 p.m. ET) with three players still on the course.

Here’s a look at some of the players who weren’t so fortunate.