As Adam Scott’s cuts-made streak ends, let’s marvel at Tiger Woods’ run
While Tiger Woods remains on golf’s sidelines, his game apparently not yet “tournament ready” enough to play in next week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational, we have a chance to marvel at just how great he once was.
Adam Scott missed the cut at this week’s Valspar Championship, ending what had been the longest active cuts-made streak on the PGA Tour at 45 events, a run that began at the 2012 Memorial.
”It had to happen eventually,” Scott said.
Certainly, but don’t blame the missed cut, at least entirely, on the switch to the short putter from the broomstick he’s used to guide him to world No. 1 and to become the first Australian winner of the Masters.
“Some loose shots, and some loose lag putts and some loose short putts,” Scott said Friday. “There’s not many courses we play you can get away with that. I’ve got to tighten it up a little bit. Overall, I feel pretty good.”
Then there’s the matter of losing sleep as a first-time father to daughter Bo Vera.
Steve Stricker, who is in semi-retirement and hasn’t played since the 2014 PGA Championship, now holds the longest streak on Tour at 35 events.
Both stretches are woefully short of Tiger Woods’ record mark of 142 consecutive cuts made from the 1998 Buick Invitational (now Farmers Insurance Open) through the 2005 Wachovia Championship (now Wells Fargo Championship). Woods’ streak ended with a missed cut, by a shot, at the 2005 Byron Nelson Championship.
Meanwhile, Woods missed consecutive cuts for the first time in his PGA Tour career when he missed the weekend badly at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. How things have changed.
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