LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Friday marked the second consecutive scoring day at the PGA Championship at Valhalla.
Many players took advantage of the windless and wet conditions and posted rounds below par with red numbers.
Tiger Woods, the 2000 PGA winner at Valhalla, was not among them.
On the second day of the PGA Championship, Tiger Woods plans to make a putt on the second green. Claire Grant/Courier Journal/USA TODAY NETWORK
Woods finished the first round with a 72 and started the second round at 1 over par, but a big blunder early in the second round on Friday ended his worries about qualifying.
He missed the cut at 1 under par with a few miles to go as play was halted due to darkness. Woods finished with a 6-over 77 and started at 7-over.
After making a par on the par-5 first hole, Woods hit a triple bogey on the second hole, and after a bogey on the third hole, he hit a triple on the fourth hole.
So 7 over par on those three holes sealed his fate.
Collin Morikawa, who trails leader Xander Schauffele by one stroke at 11 under par, has finished in the top five of the leaderboard after 36 holes at a major tournament four times so far this week.
It happened at the 2021 British Open at Royal St. George’s, where he finished second after 36 holes and won. That happened at the 2022 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he finished tied for first and tied for fifth.
That happened at the 2023 Masters, where he tied for fourth with 36 RBIs and finished tied for 10th. And that happened at last month’s Masters, where he finished tied for fifth and tied for third.
Braden Shattuck is one of 21 PGA of America club pros competing this week.
He had two holes to play on Friday and knew he needed to birdie one, if not both, to go into the weekend.
He made a 35-footer for birdie on the par-3 eighth hole (17th of the round). Then, on the 36th hole, he recovered as best he could from a poor drive into the bunker, placed his second shot into a greenside bunker, and faced a 4-foot par.
Once again he made up for it, finishing the round with a 1-under 70 and arriving in the clubhouse at 1-under 141.
“The cup looked about the size of a thimble in the last four feet,” Shattuck said. “But thankfully, it hit the middle.”
Shattuck, 29, competed in last year’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill after winning the PGA Professional Championship, but missed the cut.
California club pro Michael Brock, who captivated the golf world by tying for 15th in last year’s PGA at Oak Hill, missed the cut this week at 7 over. …Matt Dobbins, a club pro from Meadowbrook, Long Island, finished the second round at 14 over and missed out on the PGA for the fifth time in his career…Among the big players who didn’t qualify were the current U.S. Open players. Clark and Phil Mickelson, who also had champion Windham and Jon Rahm…Jersey Shore native and former Rutgers player Chris Gottapp finished 3 over and missed the cut a week after his first PGA Tour win in Myrtle Beach. Missed.
