John Ellis bogeyed his final two holes in a rain-delayed second
round of the U.S. Open Championship on Saturday morning and missed
the cut for this weekend by a stroke.
BETHESDA, Md
John Ellis bogeyed his final two holes in a rain-delayed second round of the U.S. Open Championship on Saturday morning and missed the cut for this weekend by a stroke.
The Live Oak graduate bogeyed four of his final six holes at Congressional Country Club to finish 5-over-par 147 for the tournament. The top 60 players and anyone within 10 shots of the lead advanced.
Ellis, 31, was that close to making his first cut in a PGA Tour event Friday when play was suspended. He was on the par-4 17th fairway and would bogey that and the par-4 18th to fall to 2-over-par 73, a one-stroke improvement from his opening round.
Ellis, who previous PGA Tour experience included the 2010 Frys.com Open and the 2008 U.S. Open, got off to a great start in the second round but began to unravel after carding his first bogey for the round on the par-3 13th. He was 2-under until then with birdies on Nos. 8-9.
