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Collin Morikawa’s streak finally came to an end at the Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands. In fact, it was becoming a pressure of sorts, as that streak approached Tiger Woods’ record of 25 straight cuts since making his PGA Tour debut.
The 23-year-old Morikawa fell short as he finally missed a cut in his 23 starts. In the course of that stretch, he has one win, two runner-ups, five other Top-10 finishes and six more between inside Top-26. In essence he was outside Top-26 only eigh times in 22 starts.
“It was bound to happen at some point,” Morikawa said. “Who knows when that was going to be. But now I guess we’re going to stop talking about it and I can go and just go on to next week. I’m going to learn a lot from this week.”
Morikawa shot 72-71 and missed the cut, which fell at four-under this week.
Morikawa was within touching distance of his second PGA Tour win after losing in a play-off to Daniel Berger at the Charles Schwab Challenge, the first tournament back after a three-month hiatus on the PGA TOUR due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Twice he missed short putts inside five feet. Last week at RBC Heritage he was T-64.
After graduating from Cal Berkeley in the spring of 2019, Morikawa turned pro. He was runner-up to friend Matthew Wolff at the 3M Open in only his fourth start, was T-4 at John Deere Classic at the very next start and finally won the Barracuda Championship in what was his sixth start as a pro on PGA Tour
Along with 3M winner Wolff and Puerto Rico Open winner Viktor Hovland, who is in the mix at the Travelers, Morikawa is seen as one of the most talented rookies on the Tour. He was 20th in the FedExCup and is now 29thin World rankings.
As for his schedule in the coming weeks, he plays the two events in Muirfield Village in Columbus, Ohio, skip 3M and will then be playing St. Jude and the PGA.
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