Making cut to be harder as rules change

Making the cut will become harder at PGA Tour events during the 2019-20 season.

The PGA Tour policy board has approved changes which will reduce the number of players who will advance to the final 36 holes of a tournament from the top 70 and ties to the top 65 and ties.

There will also be a secondary cut if there are 78 or more players who advance following the 36-hole cut.

The move has not been universally welcomed with American Brandt Snedeker opposed to it.

He said: “I didn’t think the system was broken.”

But England’s Paul Casey, who is a member of the tour’s player advisory council, is in favour of the change.

He said: “It’s a capitalist sport. You play well, you do well.

“It’s a capitalist sport. You play well, you do well”

“I’ve been on both sides of it, and I still firmly believe you make your own success, so I’m a fan of it.

“As long as we’re not taking away opportunities to get into events, and I don’t think this is taking away earnings or opportunities for players.

“This is thing to do.

“We have to the product.”

Meanwhile, Irish golfer Paul Dunne revealed he was invited into a plane’s cockpit by two pilots after being mistaken for Open champion Shane Lowry.

The 26-year-old wrote on social media: “The flight attendant just brought me into the cockpit to meet the two pilots who wanted to congratulate me on winning the Open.

“After correcting them they said they’d been googling it and we look exactly alike!” the right protect