Xander Schauffele Makes A Late Push And Extends His Pga Tour Cut Streak To 58 In A Row

After two months without competition, PGA and British Open champion Xander Schauffele set modest expectations at Bay Hill and achieved one of his goals at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

He gets two more rounds. The longest cut streak on the PGA Tour in 20 years is still intact at 58 in a row.

But it took more work than he imaged. Schauffele, who opened with a 77, was 3 under for his round through 10 holes when he ran into trouble. The 11th hole felt like getting "hit in the face with a frying pan." The par-5 12th hole he described as an "absolute disaster."

He made double bogey on both and was on the ropes. But he found birdies on a course that doesn't give them up easily, hitting wedge to 8 feet to a back pin on the 13th, holing a 30-foot birdie putt on the 14th and then from a fairway bunker to pin-high on the par-5 16th to set up a two-putt birdie.

A bogey on the final hole gave him a 71 - 12 shots behind 36-hole leader Shane Lowry - and made him sweat only briefly until it was clear he would make the cut on the number. This signature event has a 36-hole cut to top 50 and ties, plus anyone within 10 shots of the lead.