Denver-based Scot Martin Laird horribly tripled his last hole and then withdrew following a second round eight-over par 78 at the 2025 PGA Tour qualifier on the Sawgrass Country Club course in Florida.

Laird, who turns 42 on December 29, is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour but has not tasted success since capturing a second Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in 2020.

The Scot has managed to retain his PGA Tour card every year since his full season Tour debut in 2008 and with this season’s FedEx Cup ranking of 147th was a poorest year since the 2019/20 wrapround season when he was ranked 182nd but with the Tour going into lockdown in March 2020 duo to the Covid pandemic and all players retaining their Tour cards.

This year Laird contested 26 events but disappointingly missing the halfway cut in 12 and with his best finish being a T9th in March at the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches.

Happier times for Scot Martin Laird winning the 2013 Valero Texas Open. (Image – PGAT)

Laird’s career best FedEx Cup standing was just three years into his PGA Tour career and that being 2010 in finishing 11th on the FedEx Cup standings thanks to two second-place finishes and four other top-10s.

He was 31st in 2011, 64th in 2012 and 56th in the 2016/17 season but since the 2017/18 season, and with exception of 75th in 2020/21, Laird has been outside the top-100.

His four wins, seven seconds, four thirds, 22 top-5s and 45 top-10s has seend the Scot earned a cool $22.6m from his 405 PGA Tour events.

Laird was struggling on day one of the 2025 PGA Tour qualifier posting a two-over-par 72 on the Dye’s Valley course at TPC Sawgrass, and venue each year for the Tour’s flagship Players Championship.

The second round dawned with very strong winds wreaking havoc and with just 11 of the 170 players who teed-up on day two breaking 70.

Laird was not alone in struggling from the outset posting five outward half bogeys and falling to six-over with a bogey at 13 ahead of his only birdie at the par-4 14th.

He came to the par-4 18th at five-over but walked off in posting a ‘7’ and in handing in his scorecard he advised officials he was withdrawing.

Whether Laird was struggling with an injury this website is not sure but at eight-over and sharing 117th place, and a distant 11 shots from the lead, it may have been a case for the Scot ‘enough is enough’.

Laird’s 2025 PGA Tour status will present him access to a number of events but it will not be a ‘pick-and-choose’ schedule as he will be obliged to tee-up where he is afforded entry while he will enjoy full secondary Korn Ferry Tour status.

Up front, three Americans lead the way into day three at three-under including Corey Shaun who opened with a sensational 61 but the wind took its toll on his game on day two in recording a horror six-over 76.