The Genesis Invitational is not your ordinary Signature event. It is one of the three Signature events on the PGA Tour calendar that includes a cut. After 36 holes, the limited field event is cut down even further to ensure that the last two rounds feature even fewer players on the course. That means that some of the biggest names, like Scottie Scheffler, might end up missing the weekend rounds of Tiger Woods‘ event. And that has left everyone frustrated.

Monday Q Info tweeted, “Creating signature events with no-cut so that people ‘could see the stars play all four rounds’… Then adding a cut for some unknown reason, and having the best player in the world possibly not play the weekend would be hilarious.”

The open event qualifier news outlet team was reportedly furious that not everyone at Riviera Golf Course would play the weekend rounds. The tournament already features just 72 players. And as per the rules, the field is supposed to be cut down even further after 36 holes.

According to the PGA Tour website, the top 50 and ties on the leaderboard will have a confirmed place in the last two rounds. Moreover, anyone who is within 10 strokes of first place will also join the field for the weekend. At 2:30 P.M. (EST), that has left only 4 players outside the cutline with 68 making the cut. Which makes the system flawed and unfair for the four players if the cutline goes so low. Especially since Scheffler is one of those players.

The rest of the golf community was also quite surprised to learn about the cutline rule. And they reacted quite strongly to Scheffler & Co. possibly missing the cut.

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Fans are frustrated that the Signature event’s weird rule might make Scottie Scheffler miss the weekend round

It’s not every day that you watch a cutline in a Signature event. But the Genesis Invitational has always had the rule.

Still, one of the fans was shocked by it as they tweeted, “Is this real? Two players are going to miss the cut?!”

They only saw Keegan Bradley and Garrick Higgo below the cut line when they opened the leaderboard. That did seem ridiculous and unfair, as most of the field would still be carrying on in the tournament. However, since the first-place pro was at 6-under par, their 5-over and more pushed them below the cutline.

Fried Egg Golf‘s Joseph LaMagna wrote, “Ten-shot rule in a 70-player field is truly ridiculous. We’ve lost the plot!”

They believe the 10-shot rule shouldn’t be considered for such a short field. As the leaderboard is at the moment, it does seem pointless. However, even when the rule was applied last year, only four more players made the cutline past the top-50 in the 2025 Genesis Invitational.

Another commented, “Making LIV look serious actually took some serious thinking about.”

LIV Golf events usually have a definite 57-player field. However, the Genesis Invitational’s top-50 and ties plus 10-shot rule makes it seem like the hosts are unsure what they want to see in the weekend rounds.

Lastly, someone said, “NO DOUBT! The players on the PGA should be embarrassed but this is really what they want limited competition. Similar to LIV. The rich don’t like competition.”

There has been a debate that the PGA Tour has been cutting down the competition and making the rich richer recently. Such rules in Signature events only add more fuel to those rumors.