Scottie Scheffler has spent almost 4 years being the one guy in golf who just doesn't miss weekends. Since August 2022, he'd made 78 straight cuts, the 5th-longest streak in PGA Tour history behind only Hale Irwin, Jack Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Tiger Woods. That run officially ended at the Genesis Scottish Open, and golf Twitter treated it like a solar eclipse.
Scheffler sat right on the projected cut line late in the round, and the scoreboard told the whole story.
It came down to the wire. Scheffler was sitting 1 shot outside the projected line with a hole to play, and the margins in golf don't get much thinner than that. By the numbers, he hit just 11 of 26 fairways and 23 of 36 greens across the 2 rounds, bleeding nearly 2 strokes on approach shots alone -- not the kind of ball-striking that keeps a streak like this alive.
The tee shot on the par-3 9th, with the leaderboard behind it, captured exactly where Scheffler's week fell apart.
The number 78 is almost hard to process in context. Only 4 golfers in Tour history have ever strung together a longer run of made cuts, and 3 of them are Hall of Famers who played in an entirely different era of the game. Scheffler's streak dated back to the FedEx St. Jude Championship in August 2022 -- since then he's won majors, a gold medal, and basically redefined what a prime looks like in modern golf. Missing a cut isn't a crisis. It's just proof he's not a robot.
Barstool Sports summed up the mood pretty simply once the result was final.
The announcement that the unthinkable had actually happened -- Scheffler's streak was over at 78.
The bigger picture: this happened at the worst possible time to matter and the best possible time to shrug off. Scheffler heads to Royal Birkdale next week to defend his Open Championship title as the reigning champ and still the betting favorite, streak or no streak. A rough Friday in Scotland doesn't erase a season that's still one of the best in golf. It just means the guy who never has bad weeks finally had one, and everyone got to watch it happen live.
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