INVERNESS MAN PAYS PRICE FOR MEDIOCRE FIRST-ROUND 76

RUSSELL KNOX GOES FROM SUBLIME

TO MISSING CUT SEVEN DAYS LATER

Russell Knox must have been eager for this week's US PGA Tour event after winning $433,720 for a third place finish last week.

But the 29-year-old Inverness exile (pictured) will earn not a single cent from the $5m McGladrey Classic at the Seaside Course, Sea Island, Georgia after missing the cut with a six-over-par two-round total of 146, made up of rounds of 76 and 70 over the par-70 course.

So how did it happen? 

The first sign that Knox was not on the ball this week came at the par-5 seventh in his first round.
It cost him a double bogey 7. 
He reached the turn in two-over-37 and then had a string of bogeys on the inward half -  at the 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th and 17th in an inward five-over-par 39.

Fellow Scot Martin Laird and Englishman Brian Davis made the cut at Sea Island, both with rounds of 68 and 71 for one-under 139.
The cut fell at level par 140 and alongwith Knox, another big name casualty from this side of the Atlantic was former Major champion, Padraig Harrington. He missed the cut by four with rounds of 71 and 73 for 144.
Halfway leader is American Russell Henley with scores of 68 and 63 (33-30) for nine-under 131.
He is one shot clear of Brendon de Jonge (Zimbabwe) and Americans Brian Harman and Andrew Svoboda

SECOND-ROUND TOTALS

Par 140 (2x70)

Players from USA unless stated

131 Russell Henley 68 63

132 Brendon de Jonge (Zimbabwe) 68 64, Brian Harman 65 67, Andrew Svoboda 66 66

133 Mark Wilson 67 66, Fabian Gomez (Argentina) 67 66, Will MacKenzie 65 68

134 Kevin Chappell 67 67, Scott Piercy 67 67

SELECTED SCORES

139 Brian Davis (England) 71 68, Martin Laird (Scotland) 68 71, Gonzalo Fernandez Castano (Spain) 70 69 (T52)

MISSED THE CUT
144 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 71 73

146 Russell Knox (Scotland) 76 70.

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