Players Championship 2016 Leaderboard: Full Cut Line List of Players Removed

Scoring conditions at the 2016 Players Championship have been awfully favorable through two rounds, but several high-profile golfers couldn’t string together consecutive productive rounds before moving day rolled around.  

Among the notable names who missed the cut line of two under were Jordan Spieth, Phil Mickelson and defending Players Championship title-holder Rickie Fowler, each of whom struggled with consistency at TPC Sawgrass. 

And while Fowler finished his disappointing 36-hole stretch on schedule, Spieth and Mickelson both wrapped up their second rounds early Saturday morning after play was suspended Friday due to darkness following a two-hour weather delay. 

Here’s a look at every player who missed the cut: 

Fowler was arguably the biggest disappointment over the tournament’s first two days.

Not only did he enter the Players Championship looking to protect his 2015 title, he also posted a promising T-4 finish at last weekend’s Wells Fargo Championship that indicated he was hitting his stride entering the year’s so-called fifth major. 

Fowler did rebound from an even par showing Thursday to post a score of one under Friday, but a double-bogey on hole No. 14 set a fairly ominous tone for a round that started on the 10th tee. 

“You’re going to make mistakes out here tee-to-green,” Fowler said, according to the Associated Press (via USA Today). “I wasn’t able to make up for those with the putter.”

According to Forbes’ Erik Matuszewski, a …

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