What does "wdf" mean on the golf leaderboard?

Question

The current pga golf tournament posted this symbal beside those who missed the cut by one stroke.

Answer 1

Withdrawn From Field (was in the field, but no longer playing in the tournament)

Answer 2

As I'm not familiar with "WDF", I think you mean "MDF", which is "Made cut, but Did not Finish".  It's a relatively new leaderboard status acronym imposed by the PGA.

It signifies:

a) players that made the cut, but withdrew for personal reasons...but since they made the cut, they still get a paycheck for making the cut.

b) players that made the cut, but then for tournament sizing, were cut anyway.

It's pretty contraversial.  Someone else asked this question also, and received a lot of explanations. here's the link:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...