{"id":140479,"date":"2025-09-13T07:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140479\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:31:11","slug":"which-big-names-missed-the-cut-at-the-bmw-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140479\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Big Names Missed The Cut At The BMW PGA Championship?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weekend is here at Wentworth<\/a> after a rainy and stormy first two days, and a number of big names are heading home early at the DP World Tour’s flagship event.<\/p>\n

A total of 11 European Ryder Cup players began the week<\/a>, and 10 of them have managed to make it through to the last two rounds, including Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> who birdied the 18th hole on Friday to make the one-under cut on the number.<\/p>\n

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At the top of the leaderboard, Fleetwood’s Team Europe partners Ludvig Aberg, Justin Rose<\/a> and Viktor Hovland<\/a> are all 11-under-par through 36 holes to trail Hideki Matsuyama<\/a> by a single stroke at the halfway stage.<\/p>\n

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So, which big names missed the cut? We pick out some of the most notable, which include Brooks Koepka<\/a> and defending champion Billy Horschel…<\/p>\n

Brooks Koepka: -1 (75-68)<\/p>\n

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Koepka fought back valiantly on Friday with a superb 68, including three birdies and an eagle on his closing nine, but it wasn’t enough to claw himself back from a difficult opening round.<\/p>\n

The five-time Major champion<\/a> and LIV Golf star played his final four holes in three-over on Thursday to shoot himself out of the tournament.<\/p>\n

It’s his second consecutive missed cut after also going home early at the Irish Open last week.<\/p>\n

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Billy Horschel: -1 (73-70)<\/p>\n

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There is no shame in missing the cut for defending champion Billy Horschel, who was making his first start since April after undergoing hip surgery.<\/a><\/p>\n

Like Koepka, Horschel bounced back well on Friday with a two-under-par 70, but his slow start on Thursday, where he shot 73, ultimately proved too costly.<\/p>\n

Corey Conners: -1 (76-67)<\/p>\n

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PGA Tour star Conners was making a rare DP World Tour appearance and he is another to have missed the cut at Wentworth, in what was his tournament debut.<\/p>\n

The Canadian had an uncharacteristically poor first round, where he bogeyed two of his first three holes and also double-bogeyed the par-5 17th.<\/p>\n

He was superb on Friday, with seven birdies, but his 76-67 scores were just one stroke too high to advance through to the weekend.<\/p>\n

Rasmus Hojgaard: +5 (74-75)<\/p>\n

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Rasmus Hojgaard took the final automatic spot for Luke Donald’s Ryder Cup side<\/a> last month but the captain will have some slight concern after a difficult two days for the Dane.<\/p>\n

He finished with three consecutive birdies to improve his score, but six bogeys and four doubles for 36 holes is a disappointing return for the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n

It is his sixth missed cut of the year.<\/p>\n

Nicolai Hojgaard: +6 (78-72)<\/p>\n

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Rasmus’ twin brother Nicolai didn’t fare any better, with the 2023 Ryder Cupper also comfortably missing the cut.<\/p>\n

Nicolai shot a surprising 78 (+6) in round one where he finished 9-6 on the 17th and 18th holes after also carding a 7 on his opening nine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weekend is here at Wentworth after a rainy and stormy first two days, and a number of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-140479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}