FULL EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnwL8BZSJ4I
Collin Morikawa shares an honest look at the grind and mental game of professional golf.
Highlights include:
– Recap of Morikawa’s success in 2021 and what it felt like to be at the peak of his game.
– The turning point at Tiger’s event and how it led to a series of swing changes.
– The struggle of experimenting with new feels and techniques.
– The mental and physical toll of relentless practice and trying to find the perfect swing.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Collin Morikawa’s 2021 Open Championship win
01:10 – Collin’s 2022 struggles
06:28 – Collin’s YouTube channel
you know leaving the Open Championship in 2021 you have got to feel like you’re on top of the world you know you just you’ve already won two major championships and you have to think to yourself what’s next what can I bre what records can I break you know I I just can’t imagine how much confidence that that is that you probably had leaving that Open Championship that led us into a 2022 that I’m sure was a very frustrating year for you yeah um I mean golf was simple like I knew where the ball was going I I didn’t have to sit on the Range and try and figure things out um I go in later that fall I win the race to Dubai and win the DP World Championship over there and um at that point that yeah at that and exactly and at that point like golf is feeling easy is not the right word but just you’re getting every break that you asked for right like as a golfer like when you’re playing well you get all the breaks you think you’re lucky and you know some of the best players like like you just the good players are lucky but that’s just how things are going you know you might hit it way offline and hits a tree and you’re in the middle of Fairway and you know I’m GNA fast forward so we’ll go a month later and we go to Tigers event and I think this is where not the Tigers event bothered me but this is where it all kind of started to just not go my way and you know I think I had a five shot lead going to final round if I win that day I think we become number one in the world um lose the lose lose the lead Victor ends up winning um and at that point I’m like man like yes bad rounds happen leads like that you don’t often get a lead like that and then give it away and at that point I was like okay whatever it’s been a long season everything still feels good whatever show 22 I think we have an okay finish at Hawaii and then I go over to Dubai and this is where this is where all the nightmare fuel all the night you know just the whole thing goes abrupt um go to Dubai feeling a little weird feeling a little sick nothing’s feeling right play I’ll I’ll be the first week go to Dubai and I just we’re on the Range and I’m just don’t know where the ball is going and this is kind of where I think I went down the wrong path of like trying to figure it out instead of just saying let’s get the body right let’s just let it all heal um I come back the next week I have Rick my coach come out and we just grinding on the Range going through these new Fields going through things that we’ve never done and the problem with me as a as a student and as someone that wants to perfect it is and and the two coach and the two coaches I’ve worked with right Rick cessing house and Mark Blackburn they will vouge for this and I know for sure JJ will vouge anyone that knows me really well will vouge for this if they bring something up and they just have an idea I will go down this Rabbit Hole of coming up with 50 other things and feels that I will just say oh I think this feels right let me just try this and then I’ll ask a question I’ll be like well what what does this do and like but what if I have my hands here or what if what if I feel this well how about if I clear my lower body and and try it with pressure here and that is my worst Nemesis and that’s the path I started going down in 22 early and 22 was I started to try these new fields that I’ve never done in my life ever and sometimes you have to well so the problem with when I was in uh Dubai was I I felt I was coming over the top like I was just pulling it hard over the top and that’s like that’s fine like I’ve I’ve come over the top and I’ve pulled it left and hit these wipy cuts and that that was kind of my bad thing but I just felt like anything I did nothing dropped the club I I couldn’t shallow it and like for me I I couldn’t like couldn’t get the club to just be in the slot and just kind of turn like for me that’s what I need I can just hold my wrist conditions and turn and from there like I started going down these felds of where like I felt my hands drop and I stopped my lower body and then you know later that summer US Open I started playing draws so for me it was it was a nightmare because my body wasn’t moving and then I started using my hands even more and it was just and then I think at that point you know you go in three four months five months of doing it you just build in these patterns and you forget and that’s what sucks about golf is like you forget what you did for so long it’s still in there but you have to remember you have to just find those fields again and I was so far out of that that um I mean I spent I think in 2022 to 2023 I’ve spent more hours on the Range in those two years or let’s call it a year and a half than I did definitely than I did my entire college career and definitely within a span of 5 years before that like I have I’ve never spent that much time on the Range and like it sucked it literally sucked but I’m glad I’m I’m kind of working myself out of that now it’s it’s so funny you say all that because for golfers we play our best when we can get away from the game and you can turn your brain off when you just have that confidence of being able to go on a vacation for for two weeks or wherever just take get away from the game and come back and know you know what your ingredients are you know exactly what you need to work on and that’s how your able to work plans and be able to improve and get better and like you were just talking about it’s so hard to show up week to week in pound balls and pound balls and what ends up happening is your body isn’t working as well and then these feels that you think might work you have to work on them so hard to get have you any chance because they’re just Band-Aids um yeah basically what they are yeah no it’s like and that’s what it was like it was it was a week toe Band-Aid it was a prayer to I mean even like you go back to last year like uh even as recent as like Detroit like Detroit’s happening right now right I spent that Monday I spent four hours on the Range trying to find a feel so I could use for that week yeah it didn’t last the next week like it was just a onewe thing and that’s like What’s So Scary About golf is that when you don’t have it these band these these feels are just like yeah they’re so so short but that’s I mean that’s our sport you know I listen to this podcast is really cool all of our fans and subscribers but make sure you like And subscribe it’s cool to see what you guys are doing I know golf fans appreciate it but we we do too so please keep it up for all the good people YouTube like And subscribe you guys have some good takes so I’m happy to come on and and shoot the
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Golf always gets hard. 😉 for everyone.