At the 2026 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, the cut fell at +2 after 36 holes, sending several prominent golfers home early. This follows the surprises of day two, where Ludvig Aberg and Xander Schauffele led. New details emerge on dramatic collapses, including Tom Hoge's quintuple bogey.
In the 2026 Players Championship series, day two brought volatility at TPC Sawgrass, with the top 65 and ties advancing at +2. While Aberg and Schauffele topped the leaderboard—as detailed in prior coverage—several big names faltered.
Tom Hoge endured his first missed cut in eight Players starts, finishing 9-over (73-80). Even par entering Friday's par-4 seventh, he hooked his drive into water, dropped 50 yards short, bladed to a hill, shanked to the cart path, pitched out to a bunker, blasted to five feet, missed, and tapped in for a quintuple-bogey 9. Hoge had tied third twice in the prior three years.
Shane Lowry (76-73), the 2019 Open Champion, quadruple-bogeyed the 18th Thursday—his 1,000th such tee shot into the water since 2003—despite five prior top-20s here and a near-win at the Cognizant Classic.
Others missing: Joel Dahmen (77-73, recent top-10s at Farmers/Cognizant); Kurt Kitayama (74-75, T2 at Riviera); Jake Knapp (75-72, hot streak T11-T5-T8-T8-6); Harris English (73-77, No. 16, quadruple on Friday's ninth, first miss since last Arnold Palmer); Ben Griffin (70-78, two wins last year). Collin Morikawa withdrew early with back issues.
Sahith Theegala called the course volatile, punishing errors severely.
