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2023 World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba, Round 1 Scoring Conditions: Overall: -1.79 strokes per round Morning wave: -1.67 Afternoon wave: -1.91 Current cutline (top 65 and ties) 75 players at -2 or better (T64) Top 3 projected cutline probabilities: 1. 4 under par: 41.2% 2. 3 under par: 29.4% 3. 5 under par: 18.9% Top 10 win probabilities: 1. Scottie Scheffler (T7, -6, 13.9%) 2. Russell Henley (2, -8, 12.7%) 3. Viktor Hovland (T7, -6, 7.3%) 4. Francesco Molinari (T3, -7, 4.0%) 5. Brian Harman (T19, -5, 3.9%) 6. Will Gordon (1, -9, 3.8%) 7. J.J. Spaun (T7, -6, 3.5%) 8. Tom Hoge (T19, -5, 3.5%) 9. Maverick McNealy (T7, -6, 3.3%) 10. Matt Kuchar (T19, -5, 3.1%) NOTE: These reports are based off of the live predictive model run by @DataGolf. The model provides live “Make Cut”, “Top 20”, “Top 5”, and “Win” probabilities every 5 minutes from the opening tee shot to the final putt of every PGA TOUR event. Briefly, the model takes account of the current form of each golfer as well as the difficulty of their remaining holes, and probabilities are calculated from 20K simulations. To follow live finish probabilities throughout the remainder of the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, or to see how each golfer’s probabilities have evolved from the start of the event to the current time, click here for the model’s home page.

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KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. – World No. 1 and reigning FedExCup champ Dustin Johnson has missed consecutive major cuts in the same year for the first time in his career after he failed to make the weekend at the PGA Championship. Johnson backed up his 4-over 76 from round one at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course with a 74, leaving the Carolina local to miss out on weekend play by a single shot at six-over. RELATED: Full leaderboard | DJ sees promise with new driver shaft Gusty winds proved difficult for many players with the scoring average hitting 75.15 over the opening two rounds. Teeing off on the 10th hole, Johnson’s second round started positively with an opening birdie but he dropped five shots in 11 holes during the middle of his day. A late reprieve appeared possible when he eagled his third to last hole but the 24-time PGA TOUR winner backed it up with another bogey. Johnson wasn’t the only big name to struggle. Fellow major winners Justin Thomas, Sergio Garcia and Adam Scott also missed out by a shot as did multiple time TOUR winners Marc Leishman and Xander Schauffele. Thomas produced a brilliant 37-foot birdie on the brutal par-3 17th setting up a birdie or bust final hole scenario. Despite a brilliant drive and approach to 16-feet his birdie putt burned the edge and his week was over. Schauffele was 4 over on his final eight holes and five-time TOUR winner Leishman finished double bogey, bogey to earn the weekend off. Former world No. 1 Jason Day thought he’d missed the cut after the morning wave when he posted in at 5 over only to see the high winds help his chase for a spot in the US Open at Torrey Pines alive. Day entered the week at 65th in the world rankings, his lowest spot since 2010, needing to move inside the top 60 to earn a ticket to the US Open to be held at San Diego’s Torrey Pines – a venue where he won two of his 12 PGA Tour titles. In what turned out to be a prophetic exchange, U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau reminded Day what could happen as the two crossed paths Friday. Day was packing up his bag as DeChambeau headed out to prepare for his afternoon tee time. “Don’t do what I did. It was an expensive mistake,” DeChambeau joked to Day in reference to his mercy dash during the Wells Fargo Championship two weeks ago. The big-hitting bomber thought he had missed the cut and flew from North Carolina to Texas only to find out on arrival he was still alive, leaving him to fly back again. Good thing the Australian listened.

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