Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson have played a lot of golf together over the past two decades. But Friday brought something new for them. For the first time, Woods and Mickelson missed the cut at the same major tournament.

Though the course played a little easier on Friday, two of the biggest names in golf continued to find Royal Portrush to be less a matter of tee to green than of tee to rough, then to deeper rough, then to absurdly deeper rough.

Woods, who returned to the top of the game in style with a Masters win this year, had buried himself on Thursday with a seven-over 78. Though he managed four birdies on Friday, he added three bogeys, including on the last two holes, for a 70 to finish five strokes from the cut line. His woes on No. 17 were typical. A drive into the rough on the left, a second shot into worse greenside rough and eventually a long missed par putt.