Collin Morikawa’s Players Championship ended after just one hole when the two-time major winner injured his back during a practice swing and was forced to withdraw.
What Morikawa is essentially doing is an extreme version of soft-stepping – the practice of installing a shaft from a longer club into a shorter one to produce a softer, more flexible feel.
Whether there should be more to winning the PGA Tour’s flagship event – whether or not they are playing in a “major” championship – has been revived as a topic of debate, initiated by the tour and its tournament promotional campaign proclaiming “March is going to be Major”.
Collin Morikawa never forgot how to win. But he had forgotten how to think about winning, how to believe in his ability to win, and that had been enough over the last four-plus years to stymie his career after an early burst of success.
According to “Bunkered”, this will be a two-week partnership at this week’s Scottish Open and next week’s Open Championship while Morikawa continues to look for a long-time solution at caddie.
Collin Morikawa and a reporter at the Rocket Classic had a tense exchange during a press conference when the two-time major winner took issue with Golfweek reporting how he had been approached and asked about parting ways with caddie Joe Greiner. RELATED: AUSSIES AT THE PGA TOUR’S ROCKET CLASSIC The reporter approached Morikawa during the Read more…
If Oakmont Country Club represents one of the most difficult tests in professional golf, in at least one sense it will be starkly simple: a shot from the fairway means a player can think about how he wants to play the shot to the green, whereas a ball in the rough will suggest he shouldn’t even bother.
Australian Golf Digest
