11 Big Names To Miss The Cut At The 150th Open Championship

11 Big Names To Miss The Cut At The Open Championship

Whilst there is some incredible star power at the top of the leaderboard during the 150th Open Championship, some big names failed to show their best form this week as there are a whole host of highly ranked players and household names to miss the cut. Undoubtedly the three biggest were Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Collin Morikawa. 

Woods failed to show any form whatsoever but had an emotional moment walking up the 18th hole in what could be the final time we see him competing at the Old Course. Mickelson's second round 77 put an end to his hopes of making the cut and defending champion Morikawa had the left and right misses in play over the two rounds. 

Notable names to miss the cut

• Henrik Stenson +1
• Louis Oosthuizen +1
• Max Homa +1
• Collin Morikawa +1
• Ernie Els +1
• Padraig Harrington +3
• John Daly +3
• Brooks Koepka +4
• Phil Mickelson +5
• Marc Leishman +6
• Tiger Woods +9

Another big shock to miss the cut was Louis Oosthuizen, the Open champion from 2010 which was an event hosted at St Andrews. Ryder Cup captains past and present - Padraig Harrington and Henrik Stenson - narrowly missed out, as did Brooks Koepka. 

One interesting storyline we noticed when making the list of those to miss the cut is how well some LIV Golf players are scoring right now. Dustin Johnson, Talor Gooch, Abraham Ancer and Lee Westwood are all comfortably in red numbers whilst Patrick Reed and Sergio Garcia both shot rounds in the 60's to make the weekend. Ian Poulter even dealt with boos on the first tee at the start of both rounds, by shooting rounds of 69 and 72.