AUGUSTA, Ga. – For just the second time in his Master career, Rory McIlroy has missed the cut at the year’s first major.
McIlroy finished at 6 over par and three strokes outside the cut. He opened with a 4-over 76 and wasn’t much better on Day 2, with a 74 to miss the cut for the first time since 2010.
Although McIlroy recently began working on a new swing and he has struggled with his game the last few weeks, he appeared to bottom out at No. 10 on Friday. From an extreme downhill lie he shanked his approach shot into a row of bushes right of the fairway on his way to a double bogey-6.