
Phil Mickelson was among the masters stars to lose the weekend.
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Augusta, ga. – Standing in a microphone and looking at his favorite place on Earth, Fred Plesifs sighed.
“It wasn’t really – I never approached it,” he said. “I wasn’t FARBut it wasn’t really a good round of golf as yesterday. “
For couples, YESTERDAY had been magical. Thursday The 65-year-old former champion withdrew an impossible blow from the first road to no. 1 for Birdie and placed a hybrid at no. 14 for Eagle and did a lot of good in the middle, all by adding up to a round of one under 71 who left him tied to the 11th.
Take an extra second to enjoy the 71st epic round we got from 65-year-old Fred couples on Thursday.
The guy loves Augusta more than anyone. Augusta loves her more than anyone. Only 10 boys beat him on day 1. And he gave the most delightful goal of the day: Pic.twitter.com/4ylpv6SCB5
– Dylan dethier (@dylan_Dethier) April 11, 2025
But on Friday the wind came, strong greens and a cruel dose of reality. Favorite Favorite Favorite 3, 4 and 7. That Bird 9 and was hanged in Amen Corner, Holing Clutch par Putts to stay on the safe side of the cut line. But Bogeys on 14 and 15 left him on the outside searching inside, Birdie hits at 16 and 17 just lost, and after a last Bogey at No. 18 he signed for 77, two shots shifted by the two-pi-par line.
Plessifts are always happy to be here. But he is not JUST happy to be here.
“Once I get into that car and remove Magnolia Lane and get back tomorrow and eat a nice lunch, I’ll be fine,” he said. “But I’m not there for it – the goal is to make the cut to my age. I didn’t, and I’m a kind of rolling of my wheels thinking just why it was so mediocre.”
There is a charm and fear that surrounds the cut line of masters because of what it means to different people. The best pro -consider it as indispensable, given the small field filled with AMS and aging past champions. AMS and the past samples of aging, on the other hand, see it as a chance for a win in a week where a little is expected of you. Cuttings are scary things to start-specific, binary, done-apo-you have not made measures of success against failure-and cutting this week is especially important because the whole week is particularly significant.
And on Friday, the cut line was a torture room.
You want to feel bad inside? How, really bad?
Take a look at what Cameron Young did in no. 16. He was in two more, squarely in the cut line, when his head slipped to the Cup side at no. 16. He leaning until his 1-foot strike and lost it. And then he lost his 1-prone to double, also, before he had mercy on the film of horror in Triple-Bogey 6.
Young Bogeyed 17 and 18 for good mass, finishing a march toward MC that saw it at the same time with seven holes to play and seven over the same day at the end of the day.
In addition to Tiger WoodsPhil Mickelson is the biggest biggest champion of this generation, with six in his name. He entered with great expectations and, despite a mediocre on Thursday 75, gathered on Friday in one with four holes to play. But those holes went extremely wrong; In no. 15 He rotated a wedge from greenery back to water, leading to double double, and no. 16 He found the water again, sealing his destiny. He was the first MC of the 54-year-old in Masters since 2016, and then he mostly seemed surprised how he had come down.
“I really thought I would play well and get into it,” he said. “I don’t remember – I didn’t miss a lot of cuts here, and I’m surprised that I missed a year because I was playing really going well.”
In addition to Tiger Woods and Phil MickelsonBrooks Koepka is the biggest biggest champion of this generation, with his five name. He would open with a rocked round of 74, but he too had gathered; Thanks to an eagle at no 15 it was equal to only two holes to play. He made Bogey at no. 17, but still needed only Bogey to 18 to do the weekend; instead he lost his intention in the woods and was wounded with three acne for quadrilateral-bogey 8. If you are going to miss the cut, you can also truly I miss you.
Koepka was in good company. Long run friend Dustin Johnson – a champion itself passed here – even going to No. 17, too. He found trouble from tee and made Bogey there. No worries, right? Only 5 or better on No. 18 and he would make the weekend. But he lost his way out. He punched. And the one with three strokes from the back threshold for a backward dual noise that left a shot out.
Sepp Straka, a pre-Turne form in shape, opened with 78 and went to a bird ran in the middle of the road to Friday’s round; Six birds and a noise had it a stroke inside the cut line with two holes to play. He did Bogey to 17 and then hit the 18th Snap in the woods, leading to threefold trio.
Russell Henley, another fashion selection, was in second to the last after a Thursday 79, and even further rhythm with a Friday bogey in the first hole. But then he zied 4, 8, 10, 12, 13 and 16 to play his way inside the cut line – only for Bogey No. 18 to post three more, one shot out.
But the toughest MC of all Belonged to the hero of the day, the oldest player on the field, Bernhard Langerwhich in the new 67 years was gathered in the cut line with three birds and only a noise across 14 holes. But when his wedge fired at par-5 15 rolled forward and in the water, he could only look at the street and win. He was still a shot inside the cut line while playing 18, but his approach was lost left, leaving a devil up and down. He shook to the patrons as he approached the green-but he still faced an 11-party par. When this went to wandering beyond the cup, he celebrated the last hole of his illustrative career of the masters, hugging Mayor Fred Ridley after the green family and hugging family and friends and then held his wife with a long and emotional walk towards the marking area.
However, most of the anger of everyone, he still thought he could have done enough to win the transition to another weekend to Augusta National, two more days in what he called the “biggest tour in the world”.
“Coming 18 was mixed emotions because I was still inside the cut line, and even when I did Bogey, I wasn’t sure if I was completely there or not because I really thought three would make the cut, as smelly as it was today,” he said. “I thought it was harder than yesterday – but it doesn’t look like that.”
But then, on the other side of the cut line, there was another feeling: relief.
Max Homa entered this week from five lost cuts in a row. He has played a few weekends at the event without interruption, but the last time he made a cut was the last YEAR. And so, when he gathered by a Thursday 74, he could not believe how well he felt simply obtained the simple victory of a Saturday.
“It was a true battle between my ears with this,” Homa told the cut line. “It’s a war trying not to think about it because it doesn’t do you well.” He had only two shots to save on No. 18, and then he hit his shoot in the woods. He shattered something on the road. He fired an iron kick exactly on the flag. And he poured into a long wig to secure his weekend plans.
“Yes, it’s great. That has not been fun at all,” he said. “I know I’m alone (par) and whatever, eight back, but feels good not to beat myself here.”
And good to be on the right side of a brutal, inexcusable line.
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Dylan dethier
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Dylan Dothier is an elderly writer for Golf Magazine/Golf.com. Native Williamstown, Mass. Dothier is a graduate of Williams College, where he graduated in English, and he is the author of 18 in Americawhich details last year as an 18-year-old living out of his car and playing a round of golf in every state.