Despite being only 25-years-old, Collin Morikawa possesses a resume that most golfers would be envious of. A winner of two Major championships, the PGA Championship and Open Championship, he became just the second ever player, alongside Tiger Woods, to make the cut in the first 20 starts of his professional career.
Since his victory at the 2021 DP World Tour Championship though, Morikawa hasn’t seen his name on a trophy, with the American going a year without a title. Despite this, he has still put in a number of fantastic performances but, on Saturday, following his third round at the World Wide Technology Championship, Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis asked him a question related to comments made by Trevor Immelman.
Trevor Immelman suggested that Morikawa has been struggling because of the high bar he set early, and Morikawa popped back. Has to be some sort of misunderstanding. I don’t see how saying a 25% major win rate is a tough standard to live up to is offensive. https://t.co/pbPl9W0k4r pic.twitter.com/a65mc1xxcZNovember 6, 2022
The question from Lewis was along the lines of Immelman’s comment that Morikawa “came out and played so well early in his career that was possibly his bar, his standard, did he go through that?”
Initially, Morikawa smiled at the question, before going on a slight rant, with the two-time Major winner stating: “Wow, that’s hard to hear from him. To be honest, I could care less what he says there because I don’t think that’s my bar.”
He went on to add “I think I’ve got so much more to improve. I’ve been near last on putting and I don’t think I’ve even finished close to being average on putting. If I just get my putting to be average I think there is so much more to improve. So, I don’t know, I don’t know where that came from but that kind of stings there, I don’t like to hear that.”
Morikawa’s last victory came at the 2021 DP World Tour Championships, where he also claimed the Race to Dubai
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Lewis did claim that Immelman “made it as a compliment that you had played so well.” However, Morikawa didn’t see…
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