British Open cut 2015: Tiger Woods, Bubba Watson among notables heading home

It took an extra day thanks to two weather delays, one for rain Friday morning and a 10-plus hour one for wind Saturday, but the second round of the 2015 British Open is finally complete and the field has been cut. The cut line settled at even-par with 80 players continuing on to the third round. Tiger Woods, Bubba Watson, Keegan Bradley and Brandt Snedeker are not among those players.

For the first time in his career, Woods missed the cut at back-to-back major championships. He fared better at St. Andrews than he did at Chambers Bay for the U.S. Open, but still spent the entire tournament well off the lead. An opening 76 doomed his chances and he needed a miracle run Saturday stick around. That didn’t happen and now Woods is making the wrong kind of career history.

Bubba Watson ejected from the tournament in one big flurry at the Road Hole late on Saturday. That is, unquestionably, the hardest hole on the course and maybe the toughest par-4 in the world. But Bubba messed around and looked like someone ready to get the hell out of town. After sitting through the 10 hour and 28 minute wind delay, Watson came back out and made a triple bogey at the 17th that included a duffed pitch from against the wall and curious play of putting from a pathway. It was a mess all around and he went from 1-over with a good birdie chance in from of him at the 18th to 4-over and hopeless to make the the final 36.

Bradley was also done in by a poor opening round. He shot 75 on Thursday and an even-par round on Friday wasn’t good enough to make the weekend. It’s the first time he’s missed the cut in four appearances at the British Open. Snedeker finished two strokes off the cut line at 2-over. He played in the final group to finish Friday night and may have made the weekend had he not faltered near the end. Playing well into the night and in dark conditions, Snedeker double-bogeyed No. 17. That dropped him from 1-over to 3-over and ended any shot he had to make it. He birdied No. 18, but it wasn’t enough. Had he parred No. 17 and still birdied the last, he would have made the cut on the number.

John Daly got off to a great start on Thursday and was 4-under at one point on his round. Things went the wrong direction from that point, however, and he shot 71, 74 to just miss the cut at 1-over.

Graeme McDowell, Ernie Els and Matt Kuchar were among the players who made the cut right on the line. Here is a complete look at the leaderboard through 36 holes and the players headed home early.

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