Why Collin Morikawa skips out on media after…
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Collin Morikawa is one of probably the most participating and considerate gamers in golf.
That’s what made his hasty exit from the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday at Bay Hill after a crushing loss to winner Russell Henley considerably gorgeous.
On Tuesday, prematurely of this week’s Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, Morikawa spoke publicly for the primary time since he misplaced a three-shot lead with 5 holes to play and defined his salty exit.
Collin Morikawa grimaces after a putt on the fifteenth gap within the last spherical of his second place end on the Arnold Palmer Invitational this previous week. Getty Images
“Just heated, simply pissed,’’ he stated. “No offense to you guys (reporters), however for me within the second of that time, I didn’t need to be round anybody. I didn’t need to discuss to anybody. You’re simply pissed. I used to be simply drained. I simply didn’t need to discuss to anybody, and I believe that’s honest to myself. I don’t owe anybody something.’’
That final assertion is debatable, since gamers do have an unwritten accountability to make themselves accessible to the media, however primarily based on the way in which Morikawa normally operates, he certainly deserves a go for Sunday.
In actuality, he didn’t blow the event as a lot as Henley received it. Morikawa, who shot even par within the last spherical, merely didn’t seize the second when the second was there to be seized. And that damage a little more as a result of he hasn’t received a event since 2023 and that’s gnawing at him.
“Sunday night time was a lot of frustration,’’ Morikawa stated. “Just wanting back over the previous 12 months and sort of how I went about my fall was to determine out how to play higher in last rounds, and whenever you don’t play properly and also you don’t close it out, you’re like, ‘How do we go back to the drawing board?’
“Obviously, I wasn’t hitting it as properly, I wasn’t placing as properly, however I nonetheless had my possibilities to close it out, and Russ clearly performed some great golf.’’
Collin Morikawa talks with the media on March 11, 2025 in preparation for The Players Championship which begins Thursday. Getty Images
Morikawa hasn’t made a profession of failing to complete in last rounds. He’s received two main championships — a PGA and a British Open.
“I really like being in that place,’’ he stated. “But it was irritating Sunday night time. I do know my previous few finishes haven’t been nearly as good [but] you simply transfer on. I’m going to consider it. I do know what occurred. I absolutely am conscious of how it performed out. But I simply have to maneuver on and I’ve to study from it. I’ve to keep getting higher. Like I at all times say, ‘Why not win this week?’ ’’
Morikawa stated, after the ultimate spherical was over on Sunday, he “hugged it’’ out together with his caddie, Jonathan Jakovac, and his spouse, went back to their rental condominium and bought out of Orlando.
“I’m a fairly impartial man; I don’t need somebody to pep me up and say, ‘Good job,’ ’’ he stated. “I do know the place I’m at and I do know the place I’m at with my golf. I simply should win. I’ve to have the ability to close it out. That’s going to return down to me. I’m the one hitting the shot.
“We all know what occurred. I’ve to recover from it. I’m back on my two toes, I’m making an attempt to determine out how to play my best golf right here for this week.’’
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