2025 PGA Championship: 9 golfers who shockingly missed the cut at Quail Hollow
2025 PGA Championship: 9 golfers who shockingly missed the cut at Quail Hollow
If you're just tuning into the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club, you may be a little confused by the leaderboard. Moving Day began with names like Matthieu Pavon, Jhonattan Vegas, Si Woo Kim and Michael Thorbjornsen fighting for first place.
Names like Spieth and Thomas were nowhere to be found.
Thanks to some heavy rains — and the PGA of America's controversial ban on preferred lies — nine of the top 20-ranked golfers in the world didn't make it to the weekend.
The cut line came into play at one-over par on Friday and these were some of the most shocking players who failed to get under it.
Jordan Spieth (+2)
Make Cut Odds: -285
-285 Miss Cut Odds: +220
The career grand slam will have to keep waiting for Spieth, who shot a 76 on Thursday and was unable to make up enough ground with a Friday round of 68.
Justin Thomas (+3)
Make Cut Odds: -600
-600 Miss Cut Odds: +400
Despite his pedigree as a two-time PGA Championship winner, including at Quail Hollow in 2017, Thomas couldn't find his footing this week. He shot 73-72 while fighting the cut line for most of Friday.
Ludvig Åberg (+3)
Make Cut Odds: -375
-375 Miss Cut Odds: +275
It's been a weird stretch for Åberg since taking seventh at the Masters. He finished T54 at the RBC Heritage and T60 at the Truist Championship heading into the year's second major. Back-to-back double bogeys at the turn on Friday proved too much to avoid the MC.
Patrick Cantlay (+6)
Make Cut Odds: -450
-450 Miss Cut Odds: +333
Cantlay MC'd at the PGA Championship for the second time in his career after posting back-to-back rounds of 74. That's the bad news. The good news is the last time he missed the cut at this event he finished T3 the following year.
Cameron Smith (+7)
Make Cut Odds: -150
-150 Miss Cut Odds: +120
Cameron Smith is far from the only LIV Golf star who struggled at Quail Hollow, but the 2022 Open Championship winner missed the cut at the PGA Championship for the second consecutive year and was barely competitive all week. A Thursday round of 78 was too much to overcome.
Brooks Koepka (+9)
Make Cut Odds: -225
-225 Miss Cut Odds: +180
The less said about this week, the better for the three-time PGA Championship winner. Koepka went 75-76 while starting his Friday with two bogeys and a double.
Phil Mickelson (+9)
Make Cut Odds: +138
+138 Miss Cut Odds: -190
As the odds make clear, Phil missing the cut isn't a surprise. No, the surprise here is that during a week where mud balls were the biggest issue, Mickelson was impossibly stuck in the sand. He might still be in that bunker for all we know.
Russell Henley (+10)
Make Cut Odds: -285
-285 Miss Cut Odds: +220
Henley played himself out of contention early with four bogeys or worse in his first eight holes on just one birdie. He posted scores of 77 and 75 before heading home.
Dustin Johnson (+12)
Make Cut Odds: -135
-135 Miss Cut Odds: -105
DJ has missed the cut in five of his last seven majors. In the two tournaments he did make the weekend, he was still a non-factor, finishing no better than T31. Multiple club pros had a better week at Quail Hollow than the two-time major-winner.
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