The challenge can be sustaining great play. Open, was one shot out of a playoff in the British Open and was runner-up in the PGA. The following year, he won the Masters and U.S. Spieth nearly won the Masters at age 20 in 2014, his first full year as a PGA Tour member. Open scoring record a year later and then added the PGA Championship at Kiawah Island for two majors at age 23. McIlroy was 21 when he nearly won the Masters, set the U.S. Spieth and McIlroy can relate to Morikawa’s rapid rise. Jordan Spieth plays his first tournament as a father after his wife gave birth to a boy. They aren’t paired together and might not even see each other this week if they can help it. The field includes Rory McIlroy, who had a chance to win in Dubai until a bad break and frustration that led to bad shots cost him down the stretch.īrooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are playing in the Bahamas, this time 72 holes instead of the 12-hole TV exhibition in Las Vegas. And hopefully, we can just lean on that to finish off this year and head into 2022.” And obviously, over the past month-and-a-half it’s been some pretty good golf. “You can look at it as a vacation, but at the end of the day I still want to come out here and play really well. “I’m here to win and we’re here to play golf,” he said.

And with this tournament offering world ranking points, this would be as good a chance as any.īesides, hit-and-giggle is not Morikawa’s style. 1, and then the two-year rolling formula would return Rahm back to No.

According to projections, Morikawa would have to win to reach No. Open champion Jon Rahm chose not to play the holiday event hosted by Woods. I just keep pushing myself.”Īt the moment, there appears to be no limit for a game already renowned for pure irons and a repeatable swing that rarely gets him too far off course. “I set a lot of lofty goals and they’re reasonable goals - they’re not unreasonable - but I set a lot of high goals and that’s just the standard I live up to. “I wouldn’t call it surprised,” Morikawa said after a pro-am round that included cricket legend Brian Lara. 1 on the European Tour when he won the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai two weeks ago.Īnd to think it was just over 18 months ago that he picked up his business degree from the University of California at Berkeley. None of this seems to faze Morikawa, not after a year in which he won his first World Golf Championship, his second major at the British Open and became the first American to be No.

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