PGA Quicken Loans Weekend Outlook

So we started the week with 16 golfers in four different lineups.  As we hit the weekend, 11 golfers have survived to play on Saturday.  Not great.  And no single lineup got all six golfers through the cut.  Two lineups, including my cash lineup, got five through.  The other two lineups are essentially toast, getting four and three through respectively.  Here's the two lineups that have a shot at cashing.

From our core eight players who were in two of the four lineups, six made it to the weekend while two missed the cut.  Those two were John Senden and Andy Sullivan.  Senden shot a 74 on Thursday which included an eight on the par-4 12th hole.  He came back on Friday and fired a uninspiring 71 to miss the cut by five strokes.  Easily the most disappointing golfer for me this week.  Sullivan shot an opening round 65 and was seemingly safe for the weekend, but he followed up his good start with a second round 76 to miss the cut by one stroke.

Jimmy Walker played just the opposite of Sullivan, flirting with the cut-line by firing a even par 71 on Thursday, but coming back guns blazing on Friday to fire an 8-under 63.  He heads to the weekend tied for 5th, three shots off the lead.  Two other core players, Pat Perez and David Lingmerth, are also looking strong.  Perez is T5 and Lingmerth is alone in 4th place at 9-under.

Vegas favorite Justin Rose followed up his opening round 66 with and even par 71 in round two.  He sits within striking distance, six strokes off the lead.  The other two core players, Hudson Swafford and Vaughn Taylor, just squeaked into the weekend by landing on the cut-line at -2.

As for the singles, three missed the cut.  Scott Brown never got going in his first round and finished with a 74.  He didn't make up enough in his second round and missed the cut by a three strokes.  Stewart Cink fell victim to the same hole Senden endured, the 12th, posting a triple-bogey in his first round.  He never recovered and missed the cut by two.  Johnson Wagner fired back-to-back 71's and also missed by a couple.  Cink happened to be in my cash lineup which hurts.

The remaining five are all chugging along within striking distance.  Jason Bohn just continues being Jason Bohn, firing consecutive 67's.  He's T5, three shots back.  Youngster Ollie Schniederjans sits alone in 14th at -7.  Russell Knox is right there at -6.  Harris English is at -5 and Will Wilcox is at -3.

Saturday is moving day.  Hoping to keep Lingmerth, Perez and Walker at the top while guys like Rose, Bohn and Knox make a move.  Need the guys firing on all cylinders since the lineups are short one golfer heading home.