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Collin Morikawa isn’t a typical 25-year-old. And he doesn’t feel like one, either.
The world’s ninth-ranked player had a lackluster year — for his standards — and as time went on, he started to discover why he had difficulty getting back to his winning ways.
“To be honest, I think it’s just getting old,” Morikawa said Tuesday at Mayakoba, site of this week’s PGA Tour event. “Yeah, no, it’s just getting old. I mean, man, like I drank way more in college than I ever do now, but apparently when you get older, your body just moves differently.
“I still feel great, like everything feels great, everything moves great, but it’s just not as clean as it was. And the maintenance I have to do now is just a little bit more. It doesn’t mean I need to do anything crazy, I’m not changing anything really, it’s just getting my body to where I need it to be.”
Let’s rewind back to August 2020. Morikawa won the PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park in only his second major start. But after bursting onto the scene, the Californian didn’t slow down. In 2021, he won a WGC, his second major at The Open and became the first-ever American to win the Race to Dubai.
Full-field tee times from the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba
Then, in December at the Hero World Challenge, he was 18 holes away from becoming the second fastest-ever to world No. 1, behind Tiger Woods. However, he blew a five-shot, 54-hole lead with a final-round 76.
It’s been a struggle since, as Morikawa hasn’t won dating back to his triumph at The Open.
“A lot of searching and a lot of just kind of guessing, right?” he said when asked how he would assess his 2022. “Ever since I made the trip out to Dubai and played the DP World [Tour] and played Abu Dhabi, Dubai earlier in the year, things just never felt good. Just kind of was searching for that game, searching for just kind of a normal.
“The problem is when I search … I search for perfection.”
Morikawa not fighting his body anymore
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