Overall Major Cut Results: How Do the Boys Stack Up?

The latest edition of the Major Cut has just been released, the 16th edition of what has become one of the most popular YouTube golf series taking place at Sahalee Golf Course – also known as The World’s Tightest Golf Course, according to Grant Horvat’s channel. Which got me thinking – while I’ve got a vague inkling of how the boys have fared across the previous 15 incarnations of the series, their overall performance at some of the trickiest courses in the world remains a mystery.

So I got to work, cutting data with all the precision of a surgeon, foregoing night after night after night of sleep to get to the bottom of it all. How many cuts have they all made? Where did they play best? How much better is Wesley actually than George? The answers have now revealed themselves, and, well, they’re probably pretty much what you’d expect. Read on to find out more!

How many cuts have they each made?

Given that making cuts is the entire point of the whole series, this seems like as good a place to start as any. The boys have had varying degrees of success with this goal, by which I mean the Bryan Bros have had plenty of it, and Grant has not.

Wesley has been the most successful of the trio by a bee’s you-know-what, making 12 out of the 15 cuts they had attempted prior to the latest edition at Sahalee. At one stage he was batting at an even better average having made nine of ten, but a meltdown which he was far from alone in having at Oakmont and a near miss at Torrey Pines have sent his strike rate to 80%.

George sits narrowly behind his brother, a statistic which no doubt eats away at him on a daily basis. He’s made 11 of the 15 cuts, but he too has struggled of recent times, missing three of the last five. Prior to that stretch, the elder of the Bryan Bros had made an impressive nine on the trot. 

Which leaves poor old Grant sitting way down the bottom with 4 cuts out of 15 made. But it’s not all bad; at Torrey Pines, the 15th edition of the Major Cut, he crept into the imaginary weekend action by a shot, marking the first time he made it and neither of the other two joined him (in fact, each of the other three times he’d made the cut, they all did).

What are their aggregate scores?

The overall series scores rank our three friendly golfers in the same order, but the difference in performance is a lot more stark here than it is purely for cuts made.

Wesley leads the way reasonably comfortably at +6 overall, a number which is surprisingly close to even par given the wild variance he has demonstrated even within individual editions of the Major Cut. And how he has got there has been bizarre and extremely impressive in equal measures, as you’ll see in the next section.

George clearly sits in second, though while he’s only a solitary cut made behind his brother, his total score is a lot further back than what that would suggest. George finds himself at +34 overall after 15 tournaments, but unlike the extreme variance of Wesley, he has been a picture of consistency in getting to that number.

Which leads us to Grant, who sits a long, long way back at +120 overall. On paper it’s not a great number really, is it? If you break it down, however, it’s not quite as bad as it seems. 30 rounds for a total of +120 gives us +4 per round, an average score of around 76 in US Open conditions.

Round 1 vs Round 2

Two of these three have been relatively consistent across the two rounds, George in particular. He’s a square +17 across his first rounds and +17 across his second, while Grant is also reasonably steady at +65 and +55 over Day 1 and Day 2 respectively.

As for Wesley? A little more erratic. The enigmatic PGA Tour winner has actually been worse overall than George on Day 1, shooting +24 across the 15 rounds on Grant’s channel. But like him or lump him, there is no denying that Wes has, as they say, that dog in him, and it’s with his back against the wall that he’s played his best golf throughout this series. He has shot an impressive -18 in his second Major Cut rounds, and incredibly that’s inclusive of a repulsive +10 at Oakmont.

What are their best rounds?

The trio’s best rounds have been spread all over the place. We’ll start with Grant, who shot a crispy -2 in the first round at Pinehurst en route to his first cut made. That was just the second incarnation of the series and he’s been unable to replicate that number, though he has managed -1 on four occasions since.

George, meanwhile, flew home at Chamber’s Bay, bouncing back from an indifferent first round with a -5 to finish 8 shots under the cut line. He’s also shot a -4 and four rounds of -3. 

Wesley’s best rounds also sit at -5, but he has done it on multiple occasions – unsurprisingly always in the second round. In fact, he hit that number three times in four editions of the Major Cut, first at Valhalla, then at Chambers Bay and finally at Bethpage Black.

What are their worst rounds?

That variance in where and when the boys have carded their best rounds is not so evident when it comes to their worst scores; they were all at Oakmont. Grant’s worst was a +12 on Day 1 which he very nearly matched with a +11 the next day; George’s Day 1 +7 was his worst; while Wes put in a disastrous +10 on Day 2.

Fast numbers

If you can’t be arsed to read all of the above, I don’t blame you. Alternatively, if you just enjoy looking at numbers, then check out at all the Major Cut data below.

Grant Horvat

Round 1 Aggregate: +65

Round 2 Aggregate: +55

Overall Aggregate: +120

Cuts Made: 4/15

Best Individual Round: -2 in Round 1 at Pinehurst

Best Overall Score: -2 at Champion’s Retreat (Augusta National Women’s Amateur video)

Worst Individual Round: +12 in Round 1 at Oakmont

Worst Overall Score: +23 at Oakmont

George Bryan

Round 1 Aggregate: +17

Round 2 Aggregate: +17

Overall Aggregate: +34

Cuts Made: 11/15

Best Individual Round: -5 in Round 2 at Chambers Bay

Best Overall Score: -6 at TPC Sawgrass

Worst Individual Round: +7 in Round 1 at Oakmont

Worst Overall Score: +11 at Oakmont

Wesley Bryan

Round 1 Aggregate: +24

Round 2 Aggregate: -18

Overall Aggregate: +6

Cuts Made: 12/15

Best Individual Round: -5 in Round 2 at Valhalla, Chambers Bay and Bethpage Black

Best Overall Score: -8 at Chambers Bay

Worst Individual Round: +10 in Round 2 at Oakmont

Worst Overall Score: +15 at Oakmont

The Major Cut continues at Sahalee Golf Course, with the first round released on Grant’s channel on the 25th of May and the second released the following day on the Bryan Bros.

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