Gary Woodland misses cut at British Open

By Matt Tait     Jul 19, 2019

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Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, left looks up as he walks from the 7th tee with Gary Woodland of the United States during the second round of the British Open Golf Championships at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, Friday, July 19, 2019.

Kansas golf alum Gary Woodland’s dream of winning back to back majors came to an end on Friday evening at The Open Championship in Northern Ireland.

Playing in his first of the PGA Tour’s four major tournaments since winning the U.S. Open in mid-June, Woodland followed up Thursday’s first-round 74 with an even-par 71 on Friday at Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, but the three-stroke improvement was not enough for him to stick around for the rest of the weekend.

Woodland, at +3 overall, was one of 83 golfers who missed the cut (+1 for the tournament) on Friday. Rory McIlroy (+2), Zach Johnson (+4) and Tiger Woods (+6) also failed to make it to the weekend.

Through 13 holes of Round 2, the 35-year-old Topeka native was on pace to hit the cut line on the nose.

A birdie at the par-3 13th hole brought Woodland to 2-under for the day and 1-over for the tournament. But bogeys on holes 14 and 17 pushed him back to even for the day, 3-over for the event and out of the mix.

Woodland entered the week ranked No. 5 in the world in golf’s FedEx Cup standings. The next event on the PGA Tour schedule is the WGC-FeEx St. Jude Invitational, July 25-28 in Memphis.

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Written By Matt Tait

A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.