Analyzing Collin Morikawa's Golf Performance and 2nd Place Finish

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00:00to get to one of the guys who was apparently practicing a little bit after the conclusion

00:05of today's round and it was the runner-up in this term tournament call Morikawa this was

00:10this effort was completely different from the you know really the collapse we saw two years ago where

00:16rom you know comes back from a seemingly insurmountable deficit wins a tournament after

00:21con mainly had some some serious short game issues which you all discussed on the broadcast today

00:26um and and colin without a doubt will tell you he left a few on the table today some untimely

00:31three putts but largely just got beat by a guy who played incredible golf right so they had the

00:36three putts on five and six um you know maybe you tell me here like it felt like his approach game

00:42relative to some of the other days was like ever so slightly off compared to his usual standard and

00:47you got the big greens if you're not hitting it close to the pin you leave yourself open to those

00:51sorts of three putts so just i guess starting there just like evaluating console performance

00:57it's a guy that you know we think is very very close but admittedly just you know it was a little

01:03bit of strokes left out there today but just watching hideki go 35 deep there's not much

01:08you can do about that well let's just kind of start at the beginning of the day you know being

01:11one shot back and i was interested interested to see who was going to put their foot on the

01:16pedal first and so hideki holes out of the third hole for an eagle so you're like okay i guess

01:22hideki's going and then colin you know backs up that hole out and makes birdie himself at three

01:28so you're like all right colin's not going away but you're exactly right i think the big difference

01:34today for colin which you know for the most part when we look at his game we look at his precision

01:40iron play and today he was not on whatsoever with his iron game so when you take away what

01:46he does really well which is which is that his proximity um and then you throw in three huge

01:52mistakes which were the three putts at the fifth three putts at the sixth so that three putt at

01:58five was for par bogey at six and then nine was an inexcusable up and down to not make birdie

02:05so then you're four shots back going in the backside and you just needed a mistake more

02:10mistakes from hideki because they're just he wasn't making any bogeys you really had

02:16you know colin really needed to go out and fire a 30 which is seven under on the back

02:21and that's asking for a lot yeah without a doubt you know and i kind of this is going to be a

02:27little unfair to call in here but i i just want to hear your thoughts on it which is you know we

02:32like to very tongue-in-cheek discuss the clutch gene from time to time on the show whether players

02:36have it whether others don't you know it's a it's a it's a sports talk sports debate trope right

02:42colin has it right it's one two majors i don't think anyone's questioning that but i'm just

02:46curious that maybe in in somewhat similar fashion to rory and the major drought he's going through

02:54do you feel like there is a pressure at all for colin you know when he's playing as well as he

02:58has this past year the last time he won was in fall 2023 at the zozo he plays incredible this

03:04whole last year but doesn't notch a win even though he would have won the tour championship

03:07without starting strokes you know he comes into his sunday here shot off the lead do you feel

03:12like there's a little bit of pressure there for him more so than the average player of like how

03:17long is going to take me to win if i'm playing as good as i can you know well i think this week when

03:21you look at at the end for colin and you look back at those three strokes it was simple you know it

03:27was simple mistakes on a sunday and i'm i'm a big uh component of not overthinking things when it

03:34comes to looking at okay what could i have done different do i need to go change anything with

03:38my golf swing or this or that well i mean the bottom line was he shot 32 freaking under par

03:44and he three putted twice and he had an easy up and down like you just gotta do that if you're

03:49gonna win on a sunday uh especially when you're playing hideki who's not making any mistakes

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