{"id":40547,"date":"2026-02-16T12:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40547"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:04:28","slug":"morikawa-wins-at-pebble-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40547","title":{"rendered":"Morikawa wins at Pebble Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Collin Morikawa claimed a tense victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California on Sunday, fending off a final-day charge by top-ranked Scottie Scheffler that included three eagles.<\/p>\n

Double major-winner Morikawa had not triumphed on the PGA Tour since 2023, but started the day in joint-second and birdied the final hole in blustery conditions to win by a stroke on 22 under par.<\/p>\n

“It’s special for a lot of reasons,” said Morikawa, who used his win to announce that he and his wife are expecting their first child.<\/p>\n

“We just started telling people this week, and we said, ‘what better way… to just announce it to the world, if I was able to come out and win,'” he said.<\/p>\n

Back in the state where he was born and raised, Morikawa had pulled clear of a crowded leaderboard down the stretch with a superb 30-foot putt for birdie on the 15th, and another birdie on 16.<\/p>\n

With benign conditions turning gusty in the final hour, Morikawa hooked his tee shot on 17 and could only manage a bogey from the oceanside rough.<\/p>\n

He faced an agonizing 20-minute wait on the 18th fairway as Jacob Bridgeman, in the preceding group, played a shot from the beach that cracked off a cliff and back into the ocean.<\/p>\n

But a birdie on 18 was enough to seal a single-stroke win over Australia’s Min Woo Lee and Austria’s Sepp Straka, with Scheffler and Tommy Fleetwood a further shot back.<\/p>\n

“I tried to look out in the ocean as many times as I can. I love being out here,” said Morikawa, of the delay.<\/p>\n

“Pebble Beach… not many places can beat this place in the world.”<\/p>\n

Lee — chasing his second PGA Tour win, after a debut victory last March in Houston — shot 65, finishing with birdies on the final two holes.<\/p>\n

It was in stark contrast to Lee’s finish Saturday, when the 27-year-old had bogeyed the final two holes and dramatically tossed his ball into the Pacific Ocean in frustration.<\/p>\n

But the day’s best round came from world number one Scheffler, who started Sunday eight shots off the lead in joint 22nd, and made a remarkable charge up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

He began in blistering form with two eagles and three birdies in his first seven holes.<\/p>\n

Pushing hard for the finish line, Scheffler missed long on four consecutive holes, picking up two bogeys in that stretch.<\/p>\n

Still, Scheffler finished with another eagle for a round of 63 and the joint lead at 20 under par, just as winds picked up for the remaining players on the course.<\/p>\n

It was not quite enough for a famous win.<\/p>\n

“Anytime you’ve got three eagles in one round, good things are happening… Proud of the way I played today,” said Scheffler.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Rory McIlroy also had a superb final round, carding 64, but was never in contention after three doubles and a triple bogey earlier this week.<\/p>\n

“I wish I could have those four holes back this week. I played 68 really good ones,” said McIlroy.<\/p>\n

“But all in all, some really good stuff this week. Pretty encouraged going into next week for sure,” added the world number two.<\/p>\n

Morikawa’s two major victories came at the 2020 PGA Championship and the 2021 Open Championship.<\/p>\n

Wins have dried up in recent years, and he started this season’s tour with a missed cut at the Sony Open in Hawaii, before exploding back into form at Pebble Beach.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collin Morikawa claimed a tense victory at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California on Sunday, fending off a final-day charge by top-ranked Scottie Scheffler that included three eagles. Double major-winner Morikawa had not triumphed on the PGA Tour since 2023, but started the day in joint-second and birdied the final hole in blustery conditions to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}