The World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba in Riviera Maya, Mexico, featured a handful of big name players in the field. Scottie Scheffler, Viktor Hovland, Collin Morikawa and Billy Horschel — all in the top 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking — lived up to their well deserved reputations by at least advancing to the weekend. Only Tony Finau, No. 14 in the world, didn’t get the job done.
He’s not the only notable name that isn’t moving on or will have a chance to make a run at the title. Here’s a closer look at some of the notables who failed to make the top 65 and ties and are heading home from the Yucatan Peninsula empty-handed.
Finau was playing for the first time since the Presidents Cup and the rust showed on Friday. Finau made a bogey at 18 to miss the cut by one stroke, his first weekend off since the U.S. Open in June.
Finau started with 68 on Thursday, needing just 21 putts. On Friday, he holed out for eagle at the par-5 seventh to cancel out two early bogeys. In the end, Finau’s short game let him down as he was 6 for 10 in scrambling, including 0 for 2 in sand saves.
Tom Hoge plays a shot on the 11th hole during the second round of the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship. (Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)
Hoge squandered a terrific start in Mexico. He posted a bogey-free 5-under 66 on Thursday. Considering that the world No. 33 hadn’t finished worse than T-13 in four starts during the fall season, a missed cut appeared unlikely. But on Friday, Hoge made two double bogeys in his first seven holes and shot 2-over 73 to miss the cut. Hoge has been boom-bust with six missed cuts in a row this summer through the British Open, but also six top-15 finishes since he broke that string with a T-4 at the 3M Open.
Ryan Palmer plays his shot from the third tee during the second round of the 2022 World Wide Technology Championship. (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)
Ryan Palmer made bogeys on his first two holes of the tournament and three of his first five holes and never recovered from it.
Palmer’s putter was cold on Thursday. He took 30 putts and shot 1-over 72. Palmer fought back with six birdies on Friday and was straddling the cutline late in the day when he made a bogey at 17, his third of the day, and settled for 68 and a 36-hole total of 2-under 140. He won’t be happy that he hit only 4 of 14 fairways on Friday, but his putting improved as he needed just…
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