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Check out the list of golfers who missed the cut at the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta

Here’s a closer look at some of those not surviving the cut this week.

Not that anyone wants to miss the cut in a PGA Tour event, but if you did miss it this week at the 2023 Mexico Open at Vidanta, maybe you could console yourself with the thought there are worse places to be than near Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Or maybe not. Like Kevin Kisner (not in the field this week) likes to say: “This ain’t no hobby” and no one wants to not get paid on the PGA Tour.

Tony Finau leads after 36 holes at 13 under. Erik van Rooyen and Brandon Wu are a shot back. World No. 1 Jon Rahm, easily the biggest name in the field, followed up his Thursday 67 with a Friday 68 and is at 7 under.

Wyndham Clark birdied three of his last seven holes, including making a 13-footer on 18, to make the cut on the number. He extended his consecutive cuts made streak to 15, tying Sahith Theegala for longest this season.

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Here’s a closer look at some of those not surviving the cut, which came in at 2 under, this week.

Charles Schwab Challenge: This week’s player disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard is…

Scott Piercy was disqualified for signing an incorrect scorecard. He would’ve missed the cut anyway, but here’s why it still matters.

It’s starting to become a weekly occurrence on the PGA Tour. In three of the last five tournaments, a player has signed an incorrect scorecard and been disqualified as a result. This week’s culprit at the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas was Scott Piercy.

He would’ve missed the 36-hole cut, which came at 1-over 141, anyway, having shot a pair of 72s, but this is becoming “a thing” on the Tour and it’s not a good look. Last week, Y.E. Yang was guilty of the same mistake at the 103rd PGA Championship, signing for a 4 on the par-4 10th when he actually made a 5. A few weeks before that, Scott Harrington would have been several shots too many in order to stick around and play on the weekend at the Valspar Championship.

It continues to be confounding why signing an incorrect scorecard (Rule 3.3b) is still treated as if it’s the early 20th century when in today’s day and age every shot is measured by ShotLink and most likely recorded. It’s almost equally hard to explain why players continue to make scoring mistakes. These circumstances where a player knows he’s going to miss the cut is a sign of disrespect to the game and one of the bedrocks of the game – keeping an honest scorecard and attesting to it at the end of the round. Take a minute, check the math and sign for the correct score. This isn’t rocket science but as long as it remains a Rule it should be treated as such. None of these three players made an attempt to play fast and loose with the Rules, but that doesn’t make their actions acceptable.

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Scott Harrington DQ’ed; Jimmy Walker hit with penalty but survives cut at Valspar Championship

PGA Tour pros regret their errors as Harrington signed an incorrect scorecard while Walker missed his tee time.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. – Scott Harrington was disqualified from the Valspar Championship after the second round for signing an incorrect scorecard.

The DQ was a mere formality as Harrington, 40, had shot 1-over 72, which combined with his opening-round 4-over 75, would have been several shots too many in order to stick around and play on the week. Still, it continues to be confounding why signing an incorrect scorecard (Rule 6-6d) is still treated as if it’s the early 20th century when in today’s day and age every shot is measured by ShotLink and most likely recorded. It’s almost equally hard to explain why players continue to make scoring mistakes.

Jimmy Walker nearly joined Harrington as a DQ. He was penalized two strokes for being late to his 7:39 am tee time in Group 44 on Friday (Rule 5.3A).

Walker, whose last victory on the PGA Tour is the 2016 PGA Championship, was on the range when a rules official notified him that he had one minute to get to the first tee. He arrived too late.

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Had Walker arrived more than five minutes late, he would have been disqualified. Walker had to add two strokes to his score on the par-5 first hole, turning a 5 into a double-bogey 7. He rallied with five birdies in his final 13 holes to sign for 2-under 69 and made the cut on the number at 1-under 141 at Innisbrook’s Copperhead Course.

On social media, he posted: “Pro tip….don’t be late for your tee time. Thirty years in tourney golf and that’s a first…”

Scott Harrington is the 40-year-old virgin at the Players

Scott Harrington and Cameron Percy are both making their debut at TPC Sawgrass after long and winding roads to get their after age 40.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Matthew Wolff, Joaquin Niemann and Collin Morikawa are all examples of the PGA Tour’s youth movement. Wolff and Niemann won before they were eligible to celebrate legally with an alcoholic beverage while Morikawa won the PGA Championship at age 23. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Scott Harrington, the Players Championship 40-year-old virgin.

“I definitely didn’t think it would take until now to be here,” he said.

Harrington is set to make his debut at the PGA Tour’s signature event this week. But he isn’t even the oldest first-timer here this week. That dubious distinction belongs to Australian Cameron Percy, 46.

“When you write down your goals when you’re younger than this, you think, yeah, I’ll be there, but it took a long time,” Percy said. “Everyone has been coming up congratulating me. It’s pretty cool. It’s like, ‘Is this really your first time?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah.’ They’re like, ‘Wow.’”

Wow, indeed. Both Percy and Harrington are stories in perseverance. Harrington didn’t make it to the PGA Tour until earning his card by finishing No. 19 on the 2019 Korn Ferry Tour money list after grinding for 16 years on minor-league circuits. That’s after putting his career on hold in 2018 to care for his wife, Jenn, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma six months after they got married and now is in remission.

He made his professional debut in 2004, but concedes that it wasn’t until his late 20s, early 30s that he thought he was good enough to do well on the Korn Ferry Tour. The low point? In 2008, he had conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour and made only three cuts in 16 starts and earned $5,776. Meanwhile, his former college teammate at Northwestern, Luke Donald, was an established star and on his way to becoming World No. 1 in 2011.

“There were times where I was thinking I’m in my prime and I should be on the PGA Tour and I’m barely cutting it on the Korn Ferry Tour,” Harrington said.

But he never gave himself a time limit to make it. Every year he could see “micro progressions.”

“I never had a year where I lost my card and financially I was able to sustain. The difference between 50th and getting your card is so small,” he explained. “You just have to turn a fifth into a second and a 10th into a sixth. It didn’t always look like I was getting better but I always felt like I was.”

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Earning his PGA Tour card in his hometown of Portland at last was an emotional experience. When asked if he felt a bit like a seventh-year senior in college finally graduating, he smiled and said, “I’m Van Wilder,” referencing the National Lampoon’s movie starring Ryan Reynolds.

In his rookie season last year, Harrington was runner up at the Houston Open, finished No. 98 in the FedEx Cup standings and earned just under $1 million. This season his best result is a tie for 14th at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship, where he held a share of the first-round lead. On Wednesday, he received Tiffany cufflinks commemorating his first appearance at the Players from PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan.

“On paper it may look like I’m a 40-year-old first-time Players participant but I think my best stuff is still to come,” Harrington said.

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Albatross or double eagle? Scott Harrington pulls off rare feat at Sanderson Farms

Scott Harrington pulled off a rare feat at the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson on Thursday when he holed his second shot on the par-5 14th. He drilled a 3-wood from 272 yards and found nothing but the bottom of the cup. …

Scott Harrington pulled off a rare feat at the Sanderson Farms Championship at the Country Club of Jackson on Thursday when he holed his second shot on the par-5 14th.

He drilled a 3-wood from 272 yards and found nothing but the bottom of the cup. Sadly, there’s no video evidence to share of the moment.

It’s the first albatross (or is it called a double eagle?) at the Sanderson Farms since 2010 and just the second one on the PGA Tour this season (Harry Higgs, second round, ninth hole at Silverado’s North Course at the Safeway Open).

“It’s obviously the last thing you’re thinking about with 3 wood in your hand,” Harrington, who signed for 2-under 70, said after his round. “My caddie and I got a good laugh out of it. It’s nice to pick up three [shots] on one hole. It’s pretty cool.”

Albatross or double eagle?

Whatever you want to call it, picking up three strokes on one hole is one of the rarest feats in golf, even moreso than a hole-in-one.

The Double Eagle Club tracks the feat and counts 86 of them by PGA Tour players since 1974, including those made in qualifiers. All but one was scored as a 2 on a par 5 as Andrew Magee (17th hole at TPC Scottsdale in the Waste Management Phoenix Open in 2001) is the only one to make a  hole-in-one on a par 4 in the history of the PGA Tour.

The term albatross, according to the Double Eagle Club, is the “continuation of the bird theme in naming all under-par scores related to the size of the bird becoming bigger as the score gets lower; i.e. birdie, eagle, albatross.”

For professional golfers, the odds of getting an albatross are about 72,000-to-1.