Woods' record streak ends on Friday 13th

Tiger Woods missed the cut at the Byron Nelson Championship in Texas – ending a record streak of 142 tournaments in the money on the USPGA Tour.

Woods came up one shot short of qualifying for the final two rounds when he bogeyed the last hole at Cottonwood Valley, where he hit a mediocre bunker shot and then missed a 15-foot putt.

The world number one was understandably disappointed but proud of a record that could stand forever.

“You’ve got to have some good breaks along the way and I’ve definitely had my share, but also I’ve gutted it out at times where, like today, I didn’t feel very good,” he said.

“I struggled warming up and it just didn’t quite happen today. I was trying to fly by the night and bandage my way through the finish.”

Woods, who shot 72 for a one-over-par total of 141, last failed to finish in the money at the 1998 Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

His streak included 31 events without a cut, so technically speaking he made 111 cuts in a row.

Woods’ former coach Butch Harmon told Sky Sports: “We know all things come to an end eventually, it’s one of those things.

“Unfortunately he got some bad breaks, some bad bounces and didn’t really putt the way Tiger Woods normally does. I think that was the key.

“In the past when we see Tiger not at his best he saves himself with the putter, he had over 30 putts in two days and that’s not Tiger Woods’ type of golf.

“But he does not dwell on these things, he will put this aside and go back to his preparation for Memorial and the US Open.”

It was ironic that his streak ended on Friday the 13th at the tournament named for the man who held the previous record of 113 events in the money, set in the 1940s.

Ernie Els now holds the longest cut streak on the USPGA Tour at 20.

While Woods’ departure is the talk of the tournament so far, Sean O’Hair and Brett Wetterich enter the weekend with the lead on nine-under at 131 – one stroke ahead of Ted Purdy.

O’Hair fired a 65 and Wetterich and Purdy signed for rounds of 67.

Most of the other big names made the cut, with Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh four shots off the lead and Ernie Els five back.

Double US Open champion Retief Goosen shot a 71 and missed the cut alongside Woods at one-over.