{"id":373764,"date":"2026-04-11T00:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/373764\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:49:08","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\/nz\/373764\/","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 just the third player in 30 years to hit all 18 greens in regulation on 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 &#8211; needing a birdie-birdie finish to reach the cut mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jfCtLXHy\" style=\"display:none\">A chip-in at the 17th saw him birdie the penultimate hole for the second time this week and gave him a chance at the cut. 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 had previously made the cut in his previous two appearances at Augusta in 2023 and 2024 but his preparation for this year\u2019s tournament was happened 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 $34m (US$20m) 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 just the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2246,74,806,1975,121016,6028,3470,3588,45609,127,1139,1888,4131,5275,28162,7240,58253,38594,14771,53399,195036,111,139,69,1974,35138,18833,5128,8466,4739,213,2044,1865],"class_list":["post-373764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2246","tag-after","tag-as","tag-at","tag-augusta","tag-champion","tag-clear","tag-cut","tag-defending","tag-despite","tag-dominated","tag-first","tag-fox","tag-goes","tag-hold","tag-lead","tag-masters","tag-mcilroy","tag-missed","tag-misses","tag-muchimproved","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-record","tag-rory","tag-round","tag-ryan","tag-second","tag-six","tag-sports","tag-time","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}