Lahiri misses cut at Northern Trust, courtesy missed putts

Anirban Lahiri endured another painful week on the greens as he continued to miss short putts and missed the cut at the Northern Trust, the opening FedExCup Playoffs event on the PGA Tour.

Lahiri, who has been having lot of problems on the green in Europe and the US, added a four-over 74 to his first round 75 and crashed out of the event. Lahiri totaled nine-over 149 as the cut fell at two-over.

Over the 36 holes, Lahiri missed almost a dozen putts inside 12 feet and a large number of them were inside eight feet and some threeputts, too.

Despite the missed cut, Lahiri will figure in the second Play-offs event, Dell Technologies and he will need to get a good result to stay on for the third and the Tour Championships for which only the Top 30 will qualify.

Meanwhile, Dustin Johnson (65-69), Rickie Fowler (68-66), Jordan Spieth (69-65) and Jhonattan Vegas (69-65) were in a four-way share of the lead at six-under.

As Johnson made a couple of bad swings, Fowler caught up with him on the front nine itself.

Spieth had a stunning run from 10th to 16th, during which he holed six birdies and a bogey on 15th. He had five birdies in a row form 10th to 14th.

Spieth’s five straight birdies at the start of the back nine matched his longest birdie streak on the PGA TOUR. It ended with a bogey on the par-3 15th when his tee shot rolled back into the water, but he came back with a 40-foot birdie putt up the slope on the 16th. –PTI