Collin Morikawa 10 Personal Facts, Biography, Wiki
American golfer Born: February 6, 1997 (age 24 years), Los Angeles, California, United States Height: 1.75 m Weight: 73 kg PGA Tour: 5 Parents: Blaine Morikawa, Debbie Morikawa Education: University of California, Berkeley (2015–2019), La Cañada High School Height: 5’9″ (1.75 m) Weight: 160 (73 kg) Age: 24 (February 06, 1997) Birthplace: Los Angeles, California Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada Education: University of California-Berkeley 2019, Business Administration Turned Professional: 2019 City plays from: La Cañada, CA, United States
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The son of Debbie and Blaine Morikawa, Morikawa is of Japanese-Chinese descent. He graduated from La Cañada High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California, in Los Angeles County. He played collegiate golf at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2015 to 2019, winning five times, including the 2019 Pac-12 Championship. Aside from his collegiate wins, he won the Western Junior, Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Sunnehanna Amateur and the Northeast Amateur. He played on the winning Arnold Palmer Cup team in 2017 and 2018, the winning Walker Cup team in 2017 and the Eisenhower Trophy team in 2018 that finished second by one stroke. In May 2018, he spent three weeks as the top-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Morikawa graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 with a degree in business administration. Morikawa was born in Los Angeles, California. For three weeks in May, 2018, Morikawa was the top-ranked amateur golfer in the world. Morikawa turned pro in 2019. It took only six pro starts for the youngster to clinch his first PGA Tour victory, at the 2019 Barracuda Championship. He then collected his second PGA Tour victory at the Workday Charity Open in 2020. This came in a playoff against Justin Thomas and at the time, it meant he had more wins than missed cuts on the PGA Tour. The strongest part of his game is his iron play. He ranked 2nd in SG: Approach the Green for the 2020 PGA Tour season and currently ranks 1st in 2021. Morikawa attended the University of California, Berkeley, and he graduated with a bachelors degree in business administration. At university he was one of the top players in the country as he was named as a first-team All-American four times. Morikawa is half Japanese. When paired with Tiger Woods at the 2020 Farmers Insurance Open, Morikawa became the first player to be paired with Tiger Woods in a PGA Tour event who was born after Tiger turned pro. Morikawa started his professional PGA Tour career with 22 consecutive cuts made. This is the second-longest streak to start a career after Tiger Woods who had 25 consecutive. His girlfriend is Katherine Zhu. The pair met at college and Zhu played collegiate golf at Pepperdine University. His current residence according to the PGA Tour website is in Las Vegas, Nevada. His parents are called Debbie and Blaine Morikawa. Morikawa has been a TaylorMade staffer since turning pro. He wears adidas apparel and footwear. He secured his first Major Championship victory at the 2020 PGA Championship. He was the 9th player all-time to win the PGA Championship whilst making his debut appearance in the event. In 2021 he then became the first player in men’s golf history to win in his debut in two different Majors when he won the Open Championship at Royal St George’s. He played on the 2017 Walker Cup team and won all four of his matches in a crushing 19-7 win for the Americans. Rick Sessinghaus has been Morikawa’s coach since the player was eight-years-old. The course he grew up playing is called Chevy Chase Country Club. It is a nine-hole course with 10 greens and 36 tees and was designed by William P. Bell. He is a fan of the Lakers and Dodgers, both sports teams based in Los Angeles. In fact as a youngster he played basketball and baseball a lot. After winning the WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession, he joined Tiger Woods as the only under-25 to win a Major and a WGC title. Collin is 5’9″ tall. In 2002, his parents convinced the organizers of a junior golf camp at the Scholl Canyon Golf and Tennis Club in Glendale, California to let him participate although he was only 5 years old. In 2004, his younger brother Garrett Morikawa was born. In 2005, Rick Sessinghaus started serving as his coach. On June 18, 2016, he won the 2016 Sunnehanna Amateur in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA. In 2017, he started dating his fellow golfer Katherine Zhu. He won all four of his matches when he played on the 2017 Walker Cup team. He was 21 years old when he made his professional golf debut at the 2019 RBC Canadian Open, which was held in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada from June 3-9, 2019. He tied for 14th place. He tied for 35th place at the 2019 U.S. Open, which was held in Pebble Beach, California from June 13-16, 2019. On August 9, 2020, he made his Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Championship debut at the 2020 PGA Championship in San Francisco, California and won. It was his first major championship win. He tied for 44th place at the 2020 Masters Tournament, which was held in Augusta, Georgia, USA from November 12-15, 2020. He tied for 18th place at the 2021 Masters Tournament, which was held in Augusta from April 18-11, 2021. He tied for eighth place at the 2021 PGA Championship, which was held on Kiawah Island in South Carolina, USA from May 20-23, 2021. He tied for fourth place at the 2021 U.S. Open, which was held in San Diego, California from June 17-20, 2021. On July 18, 2021, he won the 2021 Open Championship in Sandwich, England, United Kingdom. It was his second major championship win.
