AUGUSTA, Ga. — For a second straight year, Justin Thomas painfully missed the cut at the Masters—and proceeded to help a handful of his peers grab weekend tee times at Augusta National when they thought they were heading home early. With four holes remaining in his second round on Friday, Thomas sat at even par for the tournament, well within the cutline that was projected to fall at five over par. Datagolf.com reportedly calculated his odds of making the cut at the time at 99.9 percent. But then Thomas closed with an improbable collapse. On the par-5 15th, Thomas made a double-bogey 7 after pulling his drive and hitting his second shot into the water. On the par-3 16th came another double when he hit into a greenside bunker, left his second shot 44 feet from the hole and three-putted. On the par-4 17th, he lipped out a six-footer for par after pushing his drive and hitting his approach over the green. Then on the par-4 18th, a pulled drive led to a punch out to the fairway and one mor...
