re: 2020 PGA Championship (Collin Morikawa WINS at -13)

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What are you talking about here?

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I was talking about his missed birdie putt on 2. It looked closer to 10-12 feet to me, but apparently it was closer to 20.

The rest of that I just meant that with as little as he’s played competitively and his back limiting his practice time, he’s likely not gonna be able to grind his way to pars at worst when he doesn’t have his A game. Especially at a course set up for a major. He’s gonna inevitably hit some wayward shots and make some bogeys (or doubles). That’s why he needs to take advantage of all these shortish putts to keep pace with the young guys who bomb it and have been playing consistently.

But maybe most importantly, he’s got to make some of those putts like he missed on #3 early, in order to build his confidence and get some momentum going. I just don’t think he can count on birdying the Par 5s and keeping the rest of his card clean with pars.