Scheffler's 78-cut streak ends at Scottish Open, one week before Open Championship

For nearly four years, Scottie Scheffler's presence on weekend leaderboards had become one of golf's quiet certainties — a streak of 78 consecutive made cuts that spoke less to brilliance than to the rarer virtue of sustained reliability. On Friday at the Scottish Open, a 2-over 72 and two missed par putts dissolved that certainty, ending the longest such run since Tiger Woods walked a similar path two decades ago. The timing, one week before Scheffler is set to defend his Open Championship title at an unfamiliar Birkdale links, transforms a statistical footnote into something with genuine wei