Tiger Woods made the cut at the Masters thanks to a little help from friend Justin Thomas

• Tiger Woods made the cut on the number at Augusta National to play through the weekend.
• Woods has now made 23 straight cuts at the Masters, tying the all-time record.

Tiger Woods braved the rain to make the cut on the number at the 2023 Masters.

After bad weather pushed Woods' final holes of the second round from Friday into Saturday, Woods had some work to do, but a clutch birdie on No. 15 brought him inside the projected cut line of +2.

But the weather caught up with Woods, as he bogeyed his final two holes to finish his first 36 at 3-over, putting him in jeopardy of missing the cut at Augusta National for the first time in his career as a professional player.

At the Masters, the top 50 players and ties make the cut.

When Woods closed out his round, there were exactly 50 players at +2 or better, with two of them — Justin Thomas and Sungjae Im — still finishing out their rounds. If either of them bogeyed one of their final holes, Woods, along with the rest of the +3s in the field, would be brought into the weekend.

Woods is a close friend of Thomas, and when the situation became clear, those following the action began cheekily calling for Thomas to dump a shot to save Tiger.

As it turns out, Thomas would come through for Woods, but at the cost of his own playing fate.

With the rain still pouring, Thomas bogeyed his final two holes of the round, pushing him to +4 in the tournament. While his missed strokes allowed Woods to make the cut, it also left Thomas on the outside looking in.

Still, Woods made the cut, and in the process, joined Fred Couples and Gary Player as the only golfers to ever make 23 consecutive cuts at the Masters.