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-9 <\/strong>A Svensson (Can); <\/span>-7<\/strong> S Scheffler (US); <\/span>-6 <\/strong>MW Lee (Aus), C Morikawa (US), B Griffin (US), C Bezuidenhout (SA)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| Selected: -4<\/strong> V Hovland (Nor), J Day (Aus); <\/span>-2<\/strong> J Rose (Eng), A Rai (Eng), T Hatton (Eng), T Fleetwood (Eng); D Willett (Eng), M Wallace (Eng); <\/span>+2<\/strong> S Lowy (Ire); <\/span>+3 <\/strong> M Fitzpatrick (Eng) <\/span>+5<\/strong> R McIlroy (NI)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | Rory McIlroy missed the cut as the storm-delayed second round of the Players Championship was completed on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n The Northern Irishman finished his second round on Friday with a one-over-par 73, to follow his first-round 76.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n But he missed the cut by three shots as the final finishers reached the clubhouse on Saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n Canadian Adam Svensson heads into round three with a two-shot lead over Masters champion Scottie Scheffler.<\/span><\/p>\n Svensson’s birdie on the 18th saw him finish five under for the day.<\/span><\/p>\n “It was just very blah,” said McIlroy on pgatour.com. “I guess the course, you just have to be really on to play well here.<\/span><\/p>\n “If you’re a little off, it definitely magnifies where you are off. It’s a bit of an enigma. Some years I come here and it feels easier than others.”<\/span><\/p>\n It is McIlroy’s first missed cut since the FedEx St Jude Championship last August.<\/span><\/p>\n American duo Ben Griffin and Collin Morikawa are tied for third alongside Australia’s Min Woo Lee and Christiaan Bezuidenhout of South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n |