Justin Thomas, Rory McIlroy among names to miss cut

AUGUSTA, Ga. —Tiger Woods can thank his pal Justin Thomas for booking his weekend plans.

Playing in cold, rainy conditions on Saturday morning after the resumption of the second round of the 87th Masters, Woods finished with back-to-back bogeys to shoot 73 and needed some help to play the final two rounds and make his 23rd consecutive cut at Augusta National Golf Club. He got it from Thomas, who made bogey at 17, to move the cutline from 2-over 146 to 3-over 147. Woods, T-49 at +3, tied the record for the most consecutive cuts made at the Masters, joining Fred Couples and Gary Player in the record books (since 1957 when the cut was implemented).

Thomas’s final bogey at 18, his third of his final four holes, meant he was on the wrong side of the cutline by a stroke and was sent packing for the first time in eight career starts at the Masters.

A total of 54 players from 15 different countries made the cut at Augusta National, including 1992 champion Fred Couples, who became the oldest player to make the cut at the Masters at 63 years, 6 months and five days old, or 108 days older than former record-holder Bernhard Langer, the other ageless wonder in the field, when he made the 36-hole cut in 2020.

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“He’s got enough records,” Couples said of the 65-year-old Langer. “He’ll probably make the cut next year.”

The biggest surprise? Rory McIlroy, who seemed poised to give chase to the elusive career Grand Slam but didn’t put up much of a fight and headed home on Friday after posting 5-over 149. McIlroy and Thomas missed the cut in the same major championship for the first time (29^th time in the same field).

Here are some of the other notables that were on the wrong side of the cutline.