Morikawa won the WGC-Workday Championship – VnExpress Sports

When the WGC-Workday Championship lowered the curtain, PGA Tour recognized Morikawa as the second player to win major and win the World Golf Championship (WGC) event before the age of 25. Before that, only Tiger Woods had this record. Woods wins 18 WGC titles, first at the age of 23. Morikawa was born in 1997, holding the major PGA Championship 2020.

At the beginning of the closing round, Morikawa was at -15 and took two strokes against T2 including Brooks Koepka and Billy Horschel while Webb Simpson was fourth (-12) and Rory McIlroy and Patrick Reed in T5 (score -11).

Morikawa and Horschel took the last turn. After the par in the match, Morikawa bogey hole 2. On the green of hole 5, Horschel pushed ahead and scored a birdie, thereby reaching the top of the board. But Morikawa also birdie to level the gap. After that situation, Morikawa has a high performance of latching. UK birdie is within 3.6 meters of holes 7, 9 and 12.

With those three birdies, Morikawa monopolized the top of the table at -18. When the golfer entered the back half of the field, only Viktor Hovland was an ominous opponent in the race to the throne. Hovland was four holes ahead of Morikawa, shortening the gap to a club behind the 13-hole birdie despite the ball lying close to the thick grass and trapped in the swing path.

Hovland scored birdies from hard position

However, Hovland had two bogeys in the next three holes, so it was out of competition.

And Morikawa, after hole 12 birdie, par the rest, including 3.3 meter putt phase in the last hole.

Hovland finished at -15, finishing T2, alongside Horschel and Brooks Koepka Horschel. This position received $ 783,333. McIlroy, Simpson and Louis Oosthuizen returned to T6 at -12, each with 320,600 USD.

The closing day recorded nearly 20 players dressed in red-black – the typical color of Tiger Woods in the final round of the PGA Tour event. They wanted to cheer on Woods in hospital for a traffic accident.

Morikawa can’t be “Super Tiger” though he wants to. The sponsor’s outfit was trapped in Tennessee due to bad weather, so he chose black pants when he came out yesterday.

“Today I have a hard time describing how emotional I feel when I turn on the TV and see the red shirts on the field. You guys – golfers and fans – are really helping me through this difficult period,” the official Twitter page of Woods quoted him.

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