What happened to Collin Morikawa? The main Pint after a surprising drop found

It might be a stretch to say that a golfer who played in the Ryder Cup a few months ago is suffering.

But write off that basic fact and it’s fair to ask how a player who won his first two majors now hasn’t won anything on American soil in nearly five years.

The man in question is Collin Morikawa.

The Californian is still considered an elite actor, but could he fall into the category of a prodigy who shone brightly at the beginning but whose star is slowly fading?

Let’s start at the Ryder Cup and work backwards.

Morikawa flops at Bethpage

It was a week to forget the American people in New York even though it is a meeting with Sunday songs.

But when the dust had settled, the results were in shape. No one on the American side was made worse than Morikawa.

He played three games but came up with just half a point.

That is the complete opposite of the last time the Americans were held. That was the highlight of 2021 when Morikawa played four games, won three, stopped one and ended the week as a member of Team USA.

Perhaps most troubling is that its Bethpage did not surprise us.

Ahead of the opening day, Fanagolf ran the numbers and found that Morikawa and Harris English were tied for 132 outside of the two-best 132.

And so it played. They were sent twice and lost twice.

After Morikawa was given a wild drawing before the event, Golf365 gave this verdict: “Morikawa is his 14th meal is enough. At the highest level of 141 RECKLES. locking many was not his down.”

Morikawa in the majors

Morikawa won the 2020 PGA Championship in his third major start.

For his eighth, he celebrated by winning the open tournament with his elimination from the tournament.

From the 2020 PGA to the 2022 Open, Morikawa played in Nine Majors. He won two, was five in three others and had eight in Lolulu.

That’s an amazing run.

It took Tiger 12 majors as a pro before two were in the bag.

Morikawa was in a funny place.

But fast forward to this year’s majors and there are other signs of decline.

Morikawa finished 14th at the Masters, 50th at the PGA Championship, 23rd at the US Open and missed the cut for the Open Championship.

Caddy changes the hint to the problem

Changing the CADDY is common in every golfer’s career.

Tiger has done it time and time again and the circumstances can be very different.

But when someone replaces their bagman five times in one year, that seems like a cry for help.

Morikawa did just that.

After splitting with CADDY JJ Jakogac in April, he went through more than four: Joe Greiner, Billy Foster, kk limbhasut and Mark Urbanek. He finally settled on this Ryder Cup final.

That it all raises a strange thought as he tries to find the spark that is powerless

The world standard is falling

At the end of 2024, Morikawa was 4th in the Official Golf Ranks.

He is now 10 years old, showing some fall but not very well.

However, OWGR does not consider LIV’s performance and works on a two-year plan that would accelerate the take-down.

Many in the game now see the Fatagolf World Rankings as more accurate. They accept the results of LIV and give more weight to the latest results.

At Fanagolf, Morikawa now finds himself at the bottom of the rankings, one spot below Aaron Rai.

Check out his rankings graph and the fall is happening.

Morikawa in his own words

So what does the man himself think about his most disappointing year since turning pro?

Here’s what he had to say after receiving his drawing after finishing 14th out of 30 last year on the trip.

“It’s like a year. There was good, some bad, some surviving. That’s some change. I’m just making some changes.

“These are frustrating years where I feel like I go into them with a positive attitude and look back and say, man, what could I have done better in a year like this.

“I just have to keep digging. Get up every day and keep finding it.”

Morikawa’s last win on American soil was the 2021 WGC-Workday Championship in Florida in February, 2021.

Indeed, he won the Royal St George’s Open in England later that year and won the PGA Tour Zozo tournament held in Japan in 2023.

But the drought now looks set for 2026.

Time is very much on Modikawa’s side – He is only 28 – only – young talent will also come up to capture that initial magic.

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