What To Expect From Colin Morikawa, As He Makes A Significant Appearance At The President’s Cup
Not for the first time in the PGA Tour season, Collin Morikawa came second to Scottie Scheffler in the final round of a tournament, this time as the World No.1 eased to victory at the Tour Championship to claim his maiden FedEx Cup title.
Despite that, Morikawa, who was also runner-up to Scheffler at the Memorial Tournament, can take some consolation from the fact he finished top of the Official World Golf Ranking leaderboard for the event following his efforts at East Lake.
That’s because of the scoring system in place at the Tour Championship, where Scheffler began with a two-shot lead, and Morikawa began six off the pace.
In the end, Morikawa finished four shots adrift of Scheffler in his bid for the FedEx Cup title, but he actually outperformed him by two over the four rounds, with SahithTheegala finishing just one shot worse off than Morikawa.
Following the event, the two-time Major winner admitted that he was taking the silver lining of knowing that, without starting strokes, he would have won the tournament.
Morikawa was the best performer at the Tour Championship
He said: “Yeah, it’s nice. I knew that was kind of the goal for the week, right, to come out on top on this kind of fake leaderboard and see how things played out. Ultimately Scottie was second or third on that leaderboard, so it didn’t really help my case.”
Still, Morikawa could see the funny side, later joking in an Instagram post: “Signed up for the gross division, forgot to sign up for the net
