Golf star Scottie Scheffler loses impressive made cut streak just one week before The Open

For astir 4 years, death, taxes and Scottie Scheffler making the chopped were among the fewer things you could trust on.

Until Friday.

For the archetypal clip since the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, Scheffler missed the chopped astatine the Scottish Open, ending a streak of 78 made cuts. It was the longest streak connected the PGA Tour since Tiger Woods acceptable the grounds of 142 consecutive cuts from February 1998 to May 2005.

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Scottie Scheffler of the USA stands during time 2 of the Genesis Scottish Open astatine the Renaissance Club successful North Berwick, Scotland, connected July 10, 2026. (Ross Parker/SNS Group)

Scheffler finished 2 shots extracurricular the chopped enactment aft shooting a 2-over 72 connected Friday to decorativeness adjacent par for the tournament. The 30-year-old was blunt successful his appraisal of his play.

"Got disconnected to a mediocre commencement and aft that, I didn't truly it adjacent capable to springiness myself a clump of looks," Scheffler said. "That's however you sprout implicit par."

The chopped for the apical 65 and ties was not authoritative until the 2nd circular was completed. Scheffler was tied for 88th erstwhile helium missed a 6-foot par putt connected the par-3 ninth to autumn backmost to even-par 142.

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Scottie Scheffler stands connected the 5th tee during the 2nd circular of the Genesis Scottish Open astatine The Renaissance Club successful North Berwick, Scotland, connected July 10, 2026. (Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)

Scheffler volition look to crook the leafage quickly, arsenic adjacent week helium volition effort to support his rubric astatine The Open Championship. The 154th Open volition beryllium played astatine Birkdale, and Scheffler has not played the links course.

"A small antithetic than I was planning," Scheffler said. "Figure retired however I get down to Birkdale and spell from there."

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Scottie Scheffler stands connected the 5th tee during the 2nd circular of the Genesis Scottish Open astatine The Renaissance Club successful North Berwick, Scotland, connected July 10, 2026. (Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR via Getty Images)

Scheffler was conscionable 3 strokes disconnected the pb to statesman the time but struggled with the putter. He missed a 3 1/2-foot par putt connected No. 11, his 2nd hole. On the par-5 12th, his spot retired of the precocious writer to a backmost pin caught a ridge and rolled into a bunker, starring to a 2nd consecutive bogey.

Xander Schauffele had his streak of 72 consecutive made cuts extremity astatine Torrey Pines successful January. The longest progressive streak present belongs to Matt Fitzpatrick astatine 29 successful a row.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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