Xander Schauffele stood in the middle of the 9th fairway with tremendous pressure on his shoulders. Sitting at even par, the World No. 2 needed to birdie his final hole of the day to earn a Saturday tee time and extend his consecutive made cuts streak to an impressive 59 in a row.
After watching his playing partners Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler each misfire, with McIlroy going into the trees and Scheffler pushing his shot to the right of the green, it was finally Schauffele’s turn to play. He needed to end up around the green on this par-5, and then get up-and-down for birdie to get to
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