{"id":9577,"date":"2026-02-16T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=9577"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:42:21","slug":"morikawa-fends-off-rivals-to-claim-first-win-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/morikawa-fends-off-rivals-to-claim-first-win-in-three-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Morikawa fends off rivals to claim first win in three years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Collin Morikawa fended off a charging group including World No 1 Scottie Scheffler to clinch the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He posted a 5-under 67 in his final round to get to 22-under, which gave him a one-shot win over the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morikawa birdied the 18th to claim his win, the seventh win of his Tour career, and his first since 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29-year-old moves from No. 19 to No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking with the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His 22-under matches the lowest score relative to par by a winner in tournament history since Brandt Snedeker in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morikawa had entered the final round two strokes back of 54-hole leader Akshay Bhatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the turn at 2-under on the day, and then joined the pack at 20-under after a birdie at the 11th. But it was a 30-footer at the par-4 15th that finally sent Morikawa into the solo lead for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee Min Woo carded a final round of 65 for a 267 total and one stroke behind Morikawa togetehr with Sepp Straka. It was his third runner-up finish on the Tour, having also finsihed second at the Rocket Classic and Cognizant Classic two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Straka, a four-time PGA Tour winner, it was his fourth runner-up finish and first since the 2023 Open Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scheffler, finished a further stroke behind, with a final round 9-under 63, highlighted by three eagles (Nos. 2, 6, 18), becoming the first player to record three eagles in a round at the course since 1983. It was a massive run for the top-ranked golfer on the day after he started eight shots back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had it not been for a trio of bogeys, two of which came on the back side, Scheffler may have run away with the event completely. Instead he finished tied fourth with Tommy Fleetwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was, however, the most consecutive top-five finishes on the Tour since 1983 for Scheffler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending champion Rory McIlroy finihed tied-14th on 17-under despite a 8-under 64 in the final round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Final Leaderboard<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Pos.<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R1<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R2<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R3<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>R4<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Total<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Collin Morikawa<\/td><td>69 SH<\/td><td>68 PB<\/td><td>62 PB<\/td><td>67 PB<\/td><td>266 (-22)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T2<\/td><td>Min Woo Lee<\/td><td>67 SH<\/td><td>65 PB<\/td><td>70 PB<\/td><td>65 PB<\/td><td>267 (-21)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T2<\/td><td>Sepp Straka<\/td><td>66 PB<\/td><td>66 SH<\/td><td>67 PB<\/td><td>68 PB<\/td><td>267 (-21)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T4<\/td><td>Scottie Scheffler<\/td><td>72 PB<\/td><td>66 SH<\/td><td>67 PB<\/td><td>63 PB<\/td><td>268 (-20)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T4<\/td><td>Tommy Fleetwood<\/td><td>67 SH<\/td><td>68 PB<\/td><td>67 PB<\/td><td>66 PB<\/td><td>268 (-20)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collin Morikawa fended off a charging group including World No 1 Scottie Scheffler to clinch the Pebble Beach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa.jpg",1094,615,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa.jpg",1094,615,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa.jpg",1094,615,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/international\/\" rel=\"category tag\">International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Collin-Morikawa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9579,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions\/9579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}