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For only the second time in the past 17 years, a major championship weekend will be without Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson.

Mickelson went 76-73 in his first two rounds at the Masters to finish +5 and miss the cut by one shot. He was even par for Friday when he carded a bizarre triple-bogey on the par-3 12th hole. After hitting his tee shot in the front bunker, Mickelson blasted out into the back bunker, then back into the front again. Two putts later, he had his second triple of the week.

Tiger, of course, isn’t playing at the Masters due to a back surgery earlier this year. In the 69 majors played since he won at Augusta in 1997, Tiger has participated in all but seven weekends (he didn’t play in four and was cut in three). In six of those seven tournaments, Mickelson made the cut, thrice finishing in the top 10.

Prior to this weekend, the only other major since 1997 that didn’t have Tiger or Phil was the 2009 British Open. Mickelson skipped that tournament in Turnberry to be with his wife as she started her recovery from breast cancer surgery. Woods was in the field and had made 19 straight top 10s in PGA events. But after playing his first 25 holes at even par and lurking around the leaderboard, Tiger blew up on the back nine, going +7 in a six-hole stretch for the first time in his career. He would miss the cut by one shot.

That British Open went on to have one of the most memorable finishes in golf history, as 59-year-old Tom Watson missed a birdie putt on the 72nd hole that would have made him the oldest major champion ever. Watson would lose in a playoff to Stewart Cink.