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.
The finish to the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am could very well signal what’s in store for the 80-man field in the final round. It’s probably going to be wild and wickedly slow.
Hideki Matsuyama, who began the year with a torrid display of scoring at the Sentry tournament in January, completed the bookend to his season in style today with a playoff victory over Alex Noren at the Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas.
This week’s BMW Championship at Caves Valley Country Club outside of Baltimore will only have a field of 49 players. That’s after the PGA Tour announced Monday that Sepp Straka has withdrawn from the second leg of the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
Luke Donald forced players to play for $100 matches on the first hole during practice rounds, and three-hole money matches between themselves to help them get into an aggressive mindset early.
For all the jockeying for position over 72 holes at Olympia Fields Country Club, for all the drama as players moved in and out of the top 30 in the FedEx Cup points standings, only one player – Matt Fitzpatrick – was able to play his way into the Tour Championship.
It was a week that every professional golfer hopes to have – one where you’re in control of all facets of your game during a four-day span on the game’s biggest stage where everything seems as easy as ever.
Australian Golf Digest
