Montgomerie had two double-bogey sevens at Augusta this week

Montgomerie has missed the weekend in five straight events - he had never missed four cuts in a row prior to his recent Players Championship exit.

Former winner Woosnam was also one shot out and Westwood two. Three-time champion Faldo missed it by five.

Only the top 45 and ties or players within 10 shots qualified.

Lyle, the 1988 champion, failed to break 80 for the second day in succession.

The Scottish veteran's 81 gave him a 17-over-par total and his sixth missed cut in his last seven years.

Faldo's two-over 74 was a huge improvement on his seven-over-par first round, but the 48-year-old Englishman will be annoyed with his bogey, bogey, bogey finish, particularly as he had eagled the long 13th to give himself an outside shot of making the cut.

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A double-bogey at the 10th put a stop to Westwood's efforts to recover from his three-over-par first round, and a second straight 75 left him on six over for the tournament.

Woosnam, the European Ryder Cup captain, went desperately close to an unlikely recovery from a poor first round. Only a bogey at the 17th knocked him back to five over as he carded a second-round 72.

The 42-year-old Montgomerie, the eight-time European number one, started his second round in good touch and was one under for his round and one over for the tournament after 27 holes.

But a shot went at the tricky 10th and he then made a mess of the long 13th. He found the trees with his drive, laid up and then spun his pitch off the green into Rae's Creek. This resulted in his second double-bogey seven of the week.

He then missed a birdie chance at 15 before seeing his chances of survival practically disappear with a three-putt bogey at 17.

Montgomerie's shoulders were slumped as he waited to discover his fate, and as an Augusta official ushered him to speak to waiting reporters the Scot said: "Just don't touch me, please."

On the pitch to the 13th, Montgomerie said: "It landed exactly where I wanted it to. There was more chance of a birdie and an eagle than a seven.

"You need a bit of fortune here and I had no fortune at all, but never mind. I didn't putt very well - I never do here.

"I had three birdies, two of them tap-ins yesterday and a 10-footer today. That's not enough.

"You have to make more birdies than that and it means you have to hole a putt and I don't hole enough putts. There you go."

It was another disappointing end to an event Montgomerie has never performed well in.