{"id":799685,"date":"2026-05-16T03:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799685\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:32:15","slug":"garrick-higgo-misses-pga-championship-cut-by-one-stroke-after-late-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/799685\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrick Higgo misses PGA Championship cut by one stroke after late penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garrick Higgo\u2019s tee time snafu on Thursday cost him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The South African missed the cut at the PGA Championship by one stroke Friday \u2014 one day after being <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/14\/sports\/garrick-higgo-misses-tee-time-at-pga-championship-for-rare-penalty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">assessed a two-stroke penalty for being seconds late<\/a> to his 7:18 a.m. tee time for Round 1.<\/p>\n<p>Higgo came out hot Thursday, shooting a 3-under 67 before the penalty knocked him back to a 1-under 69, leaving him in a great spot to potentially play the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/14\/sports\/scottie-scheffler-tied-for-lead-at-pga-championship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tied for the lead after Day 1 with seven other golfers<\/a> had it not been for his delay in getting to the tee box at No. 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39383409\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/crop-39383099.jpg\" alt=\"Garrick Higgo reacts after his putt on the 17th green during the first round of the PGA Championship.\" class=\"wp-image-39383409\"  \/>Garrick Higgo reacts after his putt on the 17th green during the first round of the PGA Championship. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p>Although he made his tee time, Higgo struggled on Friday, making the penalty loom even larger.<\/p>\n<p>Higgo shot a 6-over 76 on Friday to fall to 5-over for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Despite <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/15\/sports\/scottie-scheffler-slams-absurd-pga-championship-pin-positions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tough course conditions<\/a> and a field that struggled throughout the first two rounds, Higgo missed the cut by one shot \u2014 with his tardiness ultimately proving costly.<\/p>\n<p>After his round one Thursday, Higgo, a two-time PGA Tour winner, said his caddie, Austin Gaugert, \u201cwas yelling at me to get to the tee.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have been late if I knew I was running late,\u2019\u2019 Higgo said. \u201cI was there at 7:18 [and] 30 seconds. I was there on time, but the rule is if you\u2019re one second late, you\u2019re late.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39395702\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2276434377.jpg\" alt=\"A male golfer wearing a white and navy blue cap with a palm tree logo, looking intensely to his right.\" class=\"wp-image-39395702\"  \/>Garrick Higgo of South Africa plays his shot from the 15th tee during the second round of the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club on May 15, 2026 in Newtown, Pennsylvania.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Higgo said there was little time to dwell on the penalty before he had to tee off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I walked down [to the tee], the announcer who gave me the scorecard said that I had a two-shot penalty,\u2019\u2019 Higgo said. \u201cObviously, it wasn\u2019t great. I knew that I firstly had to get a driver and I have to hit a tee shot. I just kind of focused on what I need to do. I mean, I wasn\u2019t going to give up and shoot 80.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was only one thing that I could do, and that was make birdies and pars and hit it where I wanted to hit it. I think it shows a lot of mental strength the way I just kept fighting.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He joined Bryson DeChambeau, Tommy Fleetwood, Keegan Bradley, J.J. Spaun and Russell Henley among the bigger names to miss the cut at the second major of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrick Higgo\u2019s tee time snafu on Thursday cost him.\u00a0 The South African missed the cut at the PGA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":799686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,1445,4720,1456,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-799685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-pga","10":"tag-pga-championship","11":"tag-pga-tour","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116582150741962904","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}