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A rainy day on Friday at TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm made for tough scoring conditions and some big names didn’t have the right stuff.
Few struggled as mightily as Patrick Reed, the former Masters champion, who shot 79, his worst single-round score since March 2020.
He wasn’t the only former major champion hitting the road on Friday. Among the cut casualties, who failed to shoot even-par 140 or better for 36 holes, were three former U.S. Open champion and a pair of British Open winners.
Also heading home: Masters champ Charl Schwartzel and PGA Championship winner Jason Dufner.
Patrick Reed
Patrick Reed watches his shot from the second tee during the second round of the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship at TPC Potomac Clubhouse in Potomac, Maryland. (Photo: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Patrick Reed’s string of four straight made cuts is over. It ended with a dud on Friday. Reed started on the back nine and bogeyed six of his first nine holes. It got worse when his tee shot at the par-3 third caught a bunker and his first effort failed to escape. It led to a double bogey and a score of 9-over 79, his worst round since a third-round 80 at the 2020 Arnold Palmer Invitational. Reed, who shot 68 in the opening round, failed to make a single birdie on Friday and stunk across the board, but was especially bad in Strokes Gained: Tee-to-Green, ranking T-140 for the day. Reed hasn’t recorded a top-10 finish since the Butterfield Bermuda Championship in October.
Webb Simpson
Webb Simpson plays his shot from the eighth tee during the second round of the 2022 Wells Fargo Championship at TPC Potomac in Potomac, Maryland. (Photo: Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images)
The good news for Webb Simpson: he made one more birdie than he did Thursday when he made two and shot 1-under 69. The bad news: seven bogeys and a double bogey littered his scorecard Friday. It added up to 6-over 76 and his first missed cut since the Players Championship. He had played…
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