{"id":600039,"date":"2026-04-11T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600039\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:48:11","slug":"masters-2026-ryan-fox-misses-cut-as-rory-mcilroy-goes-six-clear-after-second-round-at-augusta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/600039\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters 2026: Ryan Fox misses cut as Rory McIlroy goes six clear after second round at Augusta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">It was a strong day for the European Ryder Cup contingent with Tyrrell Hatton becoming the third player in 30 years to hit all 18 greens in regulation on the way to carding a 66 and jumping to four-under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Fox had one bogey on the first nine at the par-three sixth but got back to par for the day with a birdie at the par-five 13th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">He needed to gain a shot with three holes to play but a missed putt at the par-three 16th led to a bogey and put him at six-over, which meant he needed a birdie-birdie finish to make the cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">A chip-in at the 17th for a birdie for the second time this week kept his hopes alive. At the last hole, Fox needed a tricky, long-distance putt to get to four-under but couldn\u2019t sink it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Fox made the cut in his previous two appearances at Augusta in 2023 and 2024 but his preparation for this year\u2019s tournament was disrupted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/golf\/the-players-championship-ryan-fox-withdraws-due-to-illness-collin-morikawa-out-with-injury\/4KTG6TDWBJCCRCTIZVY7ZCOMMI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/golf\/the-players-championship-ryan-fox-withdraws-due-to-illness-collin-morikawa-out-with-injury\/4KTG6TDWBJCCRCTIZVY7ZCOMMI\/\">kidney stones<\/a> on the eve of the Players Championship last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">The likes of Bryson DeChambeau (+6), J.J Spaun (+5), Akshay Bhatia (+6), Robert MacIntyre (+7), Cameron Smith (+7) and Min Woo Lee (+11) all missed the cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Fox will be in the field for the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head Island next week, a signature event with a US$20 million ($34m) purse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Masters leaderboard<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">-12 Rory McIlroy (NIR)<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">-6 Sam Burns (USA), Patrick Reed (USA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">-5 Justin Rose (ENG), Tommy Fleetwood (ENG), Shane Lowry (IRE)<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">-4 Wyndham Clark (USA), Tyrrell Hatton (ENG), Haotong Li (CHN), Kristoffer Reitan (NOR), Jason Day (AUS), Cameron Young (USA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">Selected players: -3 Brooks Koepka (USA), -2 Xander Schauffele (USA), -1 Matthew Fitzpatrick (ENG), Even Scottie Scheffler (USA), +1 Jordan Spieth (USA), +4 Jon Rahm (ESP), +6 Bryson DeChambeau (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a strong day for the European Ryder Cup contingent with Tyrrell Hatton becoming the third player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[10968,9490,10960,1929,64,129216,63,8813,103986,14827,34905,25453,279903,13057,1953,58544,755,14826,18140,24495,39408,16374,233072,292547,8050,39404,3607,15139,28331,88931,85,6618,24080],"class_list":{"0":"post-600039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-10968","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-as","11":"tag-at","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-augusta","14":"tag-australia","15":"tag-champion","16":"tag-clear","17":"tag-cut","18":"tag-defending","19":"tag-despite","20":"tag-dominated","21":"tag-first","22":"tag-fox","23":"tag-goes","24":"tag-golf","25":"tag-hold","26":"tag-lead","27":"tag-masters","28":"tag-mcilroy","29":"tag-missed","30":"tag-misses","31":"tag-muchimproved","32":"tag-record","33":"tag-rory","34":"tag-round","35":"tag-ryan","36":"tag-second","37":"tag-six","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-time","40":"tag-today"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}