Darkness Curtails Play at the Players – Leaving Two Players with Hail Mary Chances at Making the Cut

The PGA Tour leadership and organisation has been called into question since the start of 2024. Pebble Beach was a bit of an anti climax and the fact that a signature event was shortened to 54 holes with no contingency plan raised eyebrows at the organisation within the PGA Tour.

Weather delays cannot be helped but fast forward to the Players Championship and we see the dreaded yellow ‘play suspended’ banner on the Tour website; and some of the guys hovering around the cut line having to wait an agonising 15 hours between shots, just minutes away from finishing their round.

The second round of THE PLAYERS was completed at 7:50 a.m.

Ryo Hisatsune makes par at No. 9 to miss the cut by one stroke and Ben Silverman makes bogey (needed an eagle to make the cut).

36-hole cut: 73 players at 1-under 143.

— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) March 16, 2024

Two players had their rounds cut short due to darkness but both with slender chances at making the cut – which was fixed at even par through 36, fourteen back of leader Wyndham Clark.

Ryo Hisatsune was in the fairway on his 9th hole and needed to make a birdie to make the cut on the number, waking up this morning around 6am and getting out to make a par and missing the Players cut by a single stroke.

Ben Silverman of Canada was forced to sleep on a 109 yard wedge shot – which he had to make for an eagle to make the cut on the number. Walking out to the fairway as the sun rises would be nice – but making a bogey and packing the bags to make the trip home would be a strange feeling.

Cover Image via Two Inches Short