RUSSELL KNOX MISSES CUT ON US PGA TOUR DEBUT

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Inverness exile Russell Knox's US PGA Tour debut ended when he missed the halfway cut in the Transitions Championship at Salamander Golf & Spa Resort, Tampa Bay in Florida.

Because of a fog delay on Thursday, Knox, a resident of Jacksonville Beach, Florida since he was a student at Jacksonville University, did not finish his first round until early today.

He was one-under-par with three to play when he resumed but bogeyed the short 17th and finished with a level par 71.
That was as good as it got for the former Scotland youth international who is one of the leading money-winners on the NGA Hooters Tour, one of the leading American satellite pro circuits.

He was quickly back on the course for his second round and he never really got the bit between the teeth. He bogeyed the second, seventh, eighth, 12th and 17th and had only two offsetting birdies, at the long fifth and 18th, in returning a second-round 74 for an aggregate 145 - four shots over the projected cut mark.

Knox has failed several times at the US Tour Qualifying School and this was the first time he had succeeded in coming through the Monday qualifying competition for a Tour event.