Morikawa continues to break through in the 2023 FedEx Cup race
At the grand final, Morikawa is being compared to a "super car" in a group of 30 cars on the track. In the first round, he hit 61 strokes, achieving the best lap of his career on the PGA Tour and one stroke behind the 18-hole record at the East Lake Tour Championship set by Zach Johnson in 2007. The "super" lap That load" helped the 26-year-old American golfer jump to T1 with a score of -10 with Viktor Hovland and Keegan Bradley.
In the second round on August 25, Morikawa still kept his form, showing through 64 strokes. Hovland also had 64 strokes to keep the T1 position with Morikawa, now up to -16. Compared to these two juniors, Bradley is somewhat "suffocated" when hitting 67 strokes and down to fourth (-13).
From 2019, the Tour Championship is only open to the top 30 FedEx Cup tables to find the champion of the entire PGA Tour. According to the final tournament rules, the top of the FedEx Cup table entered the game with a score of -10, second place -8 and then a point gradually decreased to fifth place. After that, that reduction step will gradually return to even par, applied to the next six groups. The FedEx Cup results will combine the starting point and the actual battle at the Tour Championship, in which the first place player will take home $ 18 million.
This time, the results of two rounds showed Morikawa making a spectacular breakthrough on the FedEx Cup track. Because he reached the grand final with a score of -1 while compatriot Scottie Scheffler -10, Viktor Hovland -8, Bradley -3. Yesterday, Scheffler went from -9 after round 1 to -14 and right after T1 at the end of round 2.
Halfway summary shows that Morikawa scored 13 birdies, an eagle and the main technical indicators are high including an average of 314 yards with a fairway hit rate of nearly 79%, reaching a standard green of approximately 89%.
Excluding the Tour Championship starting point, Morikawa is even more impressive when he monopolizes the top of the table after half-way, at -15. This is five strokes behind the next – Keegan Bradley, seven strokes from Hovland and 11 over Scheffler, seven from Hovland.
Morikawa is 26 years old this year, has won five titles on the PGA Tour, including two majors - PGA Championship 2020 and The Open 2021. However, since the second prestigious cup, Morikawa has never finished first in the golf arena. first class in America.
