LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Friday was a second consecutive day for scoring in the PGA Championship at Valhalla.
Many players took advantage of the wet conditions with no wind and posted below-par rounds in red figures.
Tiger Woods, the winner of the 2000 PGA at Valhalla, was not one of them.
Woods, who began the second round at 1-over par following his opening-round 72, made a mess of his early second round Friday and took any suspense out of his making the cut.
He missed the cut, which, when play was suspended due to darkness, was 1-under par, by miles. Woods finished with a 6-over-par 77 to depart at 7-over.
After a par on the par-5 first hole, Woods took a triple bogey on No. 2 and then, after a bogey on No. 3, he tripled No. 4.
So, the 7-over-par on those three holes doomed him.
Collin Morikawa, who is at 11-under par and trails leader Xander Schauffele by one stroke, has been among the top five on the leaderboard after 36 holes of a major championship four times prior to this week.
It happened at the 2021 British Open at Royal St. George’s, where he was second after 36 holes and won. It happened at the 2022 U.S. Open at Brookline, Mass., where he was tied for the lead and finished tied for fifth.
It happened at the 2023 Masters, where he was tied for fourth after 36 and finished tied for 10th. And it happened at last month’s Masters, where he was tied for fifth and finished tied for third.
Braden Shattuck, one of 21 PGA of America club pros competing this week, made the cut.
He had two holes to play Friday and figured he needed to birdie one of them, if not both, to get into the weekend.
He holed a 35-footer for birdie at the par-3 8th hole (his 17th of the round). And, on his 36th hole, he recovered from a poor drive into a bunker the best he could, hit his second into a greenside bunker, and faced a 4-footer for par.
Again he buried it, finishing off a round of 1-under 70 to get to the clubhouse at 1-under 141.
“The cup looked like the size a thimble on that last 4-footer,” Shattuck said. “But, thankfully, it found its way to the middle.”
Shattuck, 29, played in last year’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill after capturing the PGA Professional Championship, but failed to make the cut.
Michael Block, the California club pro who captivated the golf world at last year’s PGA at Oak Hill with a tie for 15th place, missed the cut this week, shooting 7-over par. … Matt Dobyns, the club pro from Meadow Brook on Long Island, finished 14-over for two rounds and missed the cut in his fifth career PGA … Among the big-name players to miss the cut were Jon Rahm, reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark and Phil Mickelson … Chris Gotterup, the Jersey Shore native and former Rutgers player, finished 3-over and missed the cut a week after winning his first PGA Tour event at Myrtle Beach.
