Bob MacIntyre stretches impressive cut streak to nine out of nine in majors

Bob MacIntyre extended an impressive run of consecutive cuts in majors to nine at the start of his career as the young Scot succeeded where world No 1 Scottie Scheffler failed by making it to the weekend in the 104th PGA Championship.

For the second day running on a demanding test in the PGA of America event at Southern Hills in Tulsa, MacIntyre rarely put himself under any pressure as the Oban man followed an opening 70 with a 71 for a one-over-par total.

It is the third year in a row that MacIntyre has made the cut in this tournament, having also achieved the feat on two occasions in The Open, The Masters and the US Open.

Rising to the challenge once again on the game’s biggest stages, the 25-year-old left-hander started his second circuit in a tie for 27th after an opening 70 in Oklahoma.

He opened with four straight pars before finding a bunker on the right side of the fairway at the fifth - a par 5 measuring a whopping 660 yards.

After having to be content with getting back out onto the fairway, the Scottish No 1 was still left with 261 yards to the hole for his third and, after finding the right rough, was unable to convert a two-and-a-half footer to save par.

Bouncing back has become a MacIntyre trademark in these events, though, and he did so once again, holing from 24 feet for a birdie-2 at the par-3 sixth.

He then couldn’t believe that a 38-footer for another 2 stayed above ground at the eighth, biting his hat in frustration as he walked to the hole but smiling at the same time.

In the company of PGA Tour winners Ryan Palmer and Alex Noren, MacIntyre then reeled off six pars in a row before three-putting from the fringe for a bogey-4 at the 14th.

That blow from that disappointment was lessened when he then