By:
Nick Piastowski
January 8, 2023
Collin Morikawa and caddie JJ Jakovac on Sunday on the 18th gap on the Plantation Course at Kapalua.
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Collin Morikawa continues to be in Hawaii.
We’ll begin on observe.
“I’m going to take two days off and luxuriate in Hawaii a bit bit extra,” he stated Sunday. “It’s not going to be as nice, however it should nonetheless be good.
“However, yeah, my thoughts’s already interested by what we have to do. It’s going to harm, however I obtained to recover from it as a result of we’re nonetheless within the very early components of the season.”
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Now the not-so-good.
It shouldn’t have been this fashion. Six-shot benefit to start out the Event of Champions closing spherical. Easy swing, as at all times. Crispy on and across the greens, too, although that was one thing contemporary for Morikawa. Final season, he was 131st on tour in Strokes Gained: Placing, and worse but — 152nd! — in SG: Across the Inexperienced. Then he referred to as on some assist over the autumn, and he started the brand new yr a person. By means of three rounds, Morikawa was pitching and chipping and placing as pure because the blue skies and blue water round Kapalua.
Now the not-so-good.
They got here quick. As did Jon Rahm, your eventual winner.
On the 284-yard, par-4 14th, after a tee shot into the suitable greenside bunker, Morikawa thinned his second shot over the inexperienced. He bogeyed. After beginning the outlet up three, he was now tied with Rahm.
On the following gap, the 530-yard, par-5 fifteenth, from 39 yards away, Morikawa chunked his third shot. He bogeyed once more. He was down one.
On the following gap, the 360-yard, par-4 sixteenth, from 77 yards away along with his second shot, Morikawa hit the false entrance. He bogeyed once more. And it was actually type of over.
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Afterward, Morikawa stated he felt “unhappiness.” That “it sucks.” Kudos to him for speaking.
“You’re employed so laborious and also you give your self these alternatives and simply dangerous timing on dangerous photographs and type of added up actually shortly,” he stated. “Don’t know what I’m going to study from this week, but it surely simply didn’t seem to be it was that far off. It actually wasn’t. Yeah, it sucks.”
Was there a shot he would have performed otherwise?
No.
“The drive off 14 wasn’t that dangerous,” Morikawa stated. “I’ve been in that bunker, it’s not prefer it’s an inconceivable bunker shot. Usually 10 out of 10 instances you’re placing that to inside 15 toes at worst. I caught it skinny.”
When did he really feel like he was beginning to lose management?
“At that time once I thinned it and missed that putt for par,” he stated. “I imply, 10 I felt like I hit putt; 11, I hit putt; 12, hit putt; 13, didn’t hit putt. However you’re going to hit dangerous putts on the market.
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“So the whole lot felt wonderful. You make a bogey there on 14, you’re like, OK, you bought 15, you bought 18, we’re nonetheless in it, we’re nonetheless proper there, no drawback. Then 15, simply pushed the 5-wood simply sufficient and knew it was going to roll down. Practiced that chip a bunch too and clearly not sufficient.”
A reporter then requested:
“From a disappointment degree as an expert, is that this the spotlight or the lowlight?”
“Of my profession thus far?” the 25-year-old requested. “I’d say so. Can’t actually consider anything. Yeah, it’s laborious to have a look at the positives, it truly is.”
We tried at the beginning, Collin.
“Right this moment it felt wonderful,” he stated. “Simply made three poor swings, actually, on the flawed instances. It’s by no means time to place a poor swing on it, however typically it really works out and these by no means labored out.”
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Nick Piastowski is a Senior Editor at Golf.com and Golf Journal. In his function, he’s liable for modifying, writing and growing tales throughout the golf house. And when he’s not writing about methods to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native might be taking part in the sport, hitting the ball left, proper and brief, and ingesting a chilly beer to clean away his rating. You possibly can attain out to him about any of those matters — his tales, his sport or his beers — at [email protected].