Brandt Snedeker finished two rounds of the Shell Houston Open in 3-over-par 78-69=147 and will miss the cut.
For over 100 in the field this week, the SHO was the final opportunity to qualify for next week's Masters. Of those missing the cut today, it likely stings greatest for Snedeker. Remember, it was his four-putt on the 72nd green at the BMW Championship last September that bumped him outside the top 30 in FedExCup Points, thus forfeiting automatic berths into THE TOUR Championship and the first three majors of 2010. Fittingly, it's his putting that has prevented him from contending lately. In yesterday's opening round at Redstone, he hit only 11 GIR and still needed 33 putts. Today's 14 GIR-28 putt ratio was more like it, but it was simply too little, too late. It's his fifth straight result outside the top 25.
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