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• Has won four PGA TOUR events (2019 Barracuda Championship, 2020 Workday Charity Open, 2020 PGA Championship, 2021 WGC Workday Championship) with his victory at the 2020 PGA Championship the first ever at a major by a Cal player.
• 2021 U.S. Olympian (Tokyo)
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Cal Career (Fall 2015 – Spring 2019)
• Stats – 48 stroke-play events, 149 rounds, 10398 strokes, 69.78 stroke average
• Individual Medalist Honors – 5
• Other Playoff Appearances – 2
• Top-5 Finishes – 22
• Top-10 Finishes – 35
• Top-20 Finishes – 45
• Cal's Top Finisher (Includes Ties) – 32
• Low 54-Hole Score – 196, -17 (Alister MacKenzie Invitational, Fall 2018)^
^Equals Cal 54-hole individual record
• Low 72-Hole Score – 272, -12 (Pac-12 Championships, Spring 2019)
• Low Round – 63 (Alister MacKenzie Invitational, Third Round, Fall 2018)
• NCAA Championships – 2 (T6th, 2019; T10th, 2016)
• NCAA Regionals – 4 (T10th, Raleigh, 2018; +T12th, Stanford, 2017; T14th, Myrtle Beach, 2019; T26th, Tucson, 2016)
+Played as individual with Cal not qualifying as a team
• Pac-12 Championships – 4 (1st, 2019; T6th, 2017; 7th, 2018; T15th, 2016)
• Golfweek Men's Golf National Player of the Year (2017-18)
• Two-Time Ben Hogan Award National Finalist (2017-18, 2018-19); Three-Time Semifinalist (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19)
• Byron Nelson Award National Finalist (2018-19)
• Two-Time All-Nicklaus Team (2016-17, 2017-18)
• All-America Scholar (2017-18)
• Four-Time Division I PING All-American (2016-17 First-Team, 2017-18 First-Team, 2018-19 First-Team, 2015-16 Third-Team) ... only player in Cal history to be a four-time All-American and three-time first-team All-American
• Four-Time Division I PING All-West Region (2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19)
• Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Year (2018-19)
• Pac-12 Individual Medalist (2019)
• Four-Time First-Team All-Pac-12 (2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19)
• Three-Time Pac-12 All-Academic (2016-17 First-Team, 2017-18 Honorable Mention, 2018-19 Honorable Mention)
• Three-Time Team MVP (2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19)
• Four-Time Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month (March 2017, March 2018, September 2018, April 2019)
• Cal's all-time stroke average leader
• Co-owns Cal's 54-hole school record along with Sebastian Crampton with his 17-under par score of 196 at the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in the fall of 2018
• Played in all but three stroke-play events and nine rounds of the 51 stroke-play events and 158 rounds possible during the four seasons of his collegiate career, missing the Tavistock Collegiate Invitational in October of 2016 when he made his PGA TOUR debut as an amateur at the Safeway Open, and the Carpet Capital Collegiate twice in September of 2017 when he was representing Team USA at the Walker Cup and September of 2018 when he was also suiting up for an American squad at the World Amateur Team Championships
• Shot a combined 193-under par
• Shot par or better in 107 of his 149 rounds, under par on 91 occasions and in the 60's a total of 71 times
• Shot at least one round of par or better in 46 of 48 events, at least one round under par 43 times and at least one round in the 60's on 40 occasions
• Finished in the top 20 in each of his last 25 events and had streaks of 10 straight finishes in the top seven (his first 10 events in 2018-19), as well as 16 consecutive top-10 showings that ended when he tied for 14th at the 2019 NCAA Myrtle Beach Regionals
• Played par of better in each of his final 18 events
• Shot at least one round of par or better in each of his final 25 events and under par in each of his last 22
2018-19 (Senior)
• Current Rankings – No. 3 Golfstat |
No. 3 Golfweek/Sagarin
• Stats – 12 stroke-play events, 38 rounds, 2334 strokes, 68.65 stroke average
• Individual Medalist Honors – 2
• Top-5 Finishes – 9
• Top-10 Finishes – 11
• Top-20 Finishes – 12
• Cal’s Top Finisher – 9
• Low 54-Hole Score – 196, -17 (Alister MacKenzie Invitational, Fall 2018)*
*Equals Cal's 54-hole individual record
• Low 72-Hole Score – 272, -12 (Pac-12 Championships, Spring 2019)
• Low Round – 63, -8 (Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational, Third Round, Fall 2018)
• One of three national finalists for the Ben Hogan Award and five for both the Byron Nelson Award and Jack Nicklaus Award while he was also listed among the top-five candidates for the Haskins Award on the final watch list
• Became the first Cal player to ever earn PING Division I All-Americans for four straight years and first-team recognition three times
• Earned PING Division I All-Region recognition for the fourth straight season
• Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Year
• Pac-12 Individual Medalist
• Recipient of Cal's Jake Gimbel Award honoring his excellence in attitude towards athletics and academics at the annual Academic Honors Luncheon
• Team MVP
• Shared Cal's prestigious Ed Arnold Coaches Award with fellow seniors Sebastian Crampton, Ben Doyle and KK Limbhasut
• Earned honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic recognition
• Selected as a preseason All-American by Golfweek's Lance Ringler
• Third in the nation with a 69.00 stroke average that was just 0.32 strokes behind the then all-time NCAA single-season NCAA record of 68.68 Morikawa set as a 2017-18 junior
• Named the Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month for the third and fourth times in his career in September of 2018 and April of 2019
• Had a pair of victories in the spring of 2019 with wins at the Pac-12 Championships and The Farms Invitational while record nine top-five and 11 top-10 showings and finishing tied for 14th or better in each of his first 12 events
• One of three Cal players that shared the team's lead with 12 stroke-play matches and 38 stroke-play rounds along with KK Limbhasut and Kaiwen Liu, while Sebastian Crampton matched the trio's 12 matches with his 37 rounds one shy of the trio
• Pared with Cindy Oh from the Cal women's golf team to win their match and a playoff to lift the Golden Bears over Stanford in the inaugural Big Match match-play event
• Shot par or better in 32 of 38 rounds while he was under par 28 times and in the 60's on 19 occasions
• Shot par or better in all 12 events and under par in 11
• Had least one round of par or better in all 12 events, as well as at least one round in the 60's 11 times
• Had strings of 21 straight rounds of par or better (October 8 – March 29), 15 consecutive rounds under par (October 23 – March 29) and four rounds in a row in the 60's (March 4-29)
*1. The Farms Invitational (67-61-65 – 203, -13)
*1. Pac-12 Championships (68-70-64-70 – 272, -12)
*2. OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational (67-66-72 – 205, -5)
*2. Alister MacKenzie Invitational (65-64-67 – 196, -17)
3. Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational (66-70-63 – 199, -14)
*3. Southwestern Invitational (70-70-71 – 211, -5)
*T3. The Goodwin (69-68-71 – 208, -2)
*T4. Southern Highlands Collegiate (71-69-69 – 209, -7)
*T5. Tavistock Collegiate Invitational (70-72-68 – 210, -6)
*T6. NCAA Championships (67-72-76-73 – 288, E)
T7. Western Intercollegiate (71-70-66 – 207, -3)
T14. NCAA Myrtle Beach Regionals (74-73-67 – 214, -2)
^Big Match with Cindy Oh (W, 5 & 4, W playoff on second hole)
*Cal's top finisher
^Match-play event with Cal and Stanford men's and women's teams
Junior (2017-18)
• Final Rankings – No. 1 Golfstat,
No. 1 Golfweek/Sagarin
• Stats – 11 stroke-play events, 34 rounds, 2335 strokes, 68.68 stroke average
• Individual Medalist Honors – 2
• Other Playoff Appearances – 1
• Top-5 Finishes – 6
• Top-10 Finishes – 9
• Top-20 Finishes – 11
• Cal's Top Finisher (Includes Ties) – 7
• Low 54-Hole Score – 197, -16 (Querencia Cabo Collegiate, Spring 2018)^
^Querencia Golf Club course record
• Low 72-Hole Score – 274, -10 (Pac-12 Championships, Spring 2018)
• Low Round – 64, -7 (twice, last at Querencia Cabo Collegiate, Third Round, Spring 2018); 64, -6 (at Western Intercollegiate, Third Round, Spring 2018)
• Earned 2018 Golfweek Men's Player of the Year and Golfstat Cup honors, while he was one of three national finalists for the Ben Hogan Award and a national semifinalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award
• Finished the season as the nation's No. 1 ranked golfer according to both Golfstat and Golfweek/Sagarin
• Also picked up a pair of first-team All-American honors (Golfweek, PING Division I) and a spot on the All-Nicklaus Team comprised of the top 24 golfers from Divisions I, II, III, NAIA and NJCAA, as well as All-America Scholar, PING All-West Region, first-team All-Pac-12 and honorable mention Pac-12 All-Academic selections
• In addition was named Cal's Most Valuable Player, shared the team's prestigious Ben Furth Award for academic and athletic excellence with KK Limbhasut and picked up the Golden Bear Individual Award for having the team's highest cumulative GPA (3.34)
• Broke a 14-year-old single-season NCAA stroke average record by posting a 68.68 to beat the previous mark of 68.93 registered by Bill Haas of Wake Forest in 2003-04 and was also well below the previous school record of 69.94 he set as a 2016-17 sophomore
• Named Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month in March of 2018
• Earned individual medalist honors in back-to-back events in the spring of 2018, winning by three strokes at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate after sharing the title with three others including Cal teammate Sebastian Crampton at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate
• Also reached a playoff to conclude the regular season at the Western Intercollegiate before eventually being defeated by Oregon's Norman Xiong on the third extra hole
• Led Cal in seven of the 11 stroke-play events he participated in
• Had a stretch of nine consecutive rounds in the 60’s in which he played 42-under par with 45 birdies and one eagle against three bogeys and one double bogey spanning four tournaments stretching from the final round of the Arizona Intercollegiate through the second round of The Goodwin
• Had a 67.45 stroke average in the final round of his 11 events with his last round his best or equaling his best on eight occasions including both of his season-best-tying 64's at the Querencia Cabo Collegiate and Western Intercollegiate
• Shot par or better in 30 of his 34 rounds, under par on 24 occasions and had 23 rounds in the 60's
• Shot at least one round of par or better in all 11 events, while he was under par and in the 60's at least once in each of his last 10
*^1. Querencia Cabo Collegiate (66-67-64 – 197, -16)
*T1. Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate (68-69-65 – 202 ,-14)
*#T1. Western Intercollegiate (69-67-64 – 200, -10)
*2. Tavistock Collegiate Invitational (72-69-66 – 207, -9)
T5. Ka'anapali Classic Collegiate Invitational (64-68-73 – 205, -8)
T5. The Goodwin (66-69-72 – 207, -6)
*7. Pac-12 Championships (67-71-70-66 – 274, -10)
9. Alister MacKenzie Invitational (69-67-68 – 204, -9)
*T10. NCAA Raleigh Regionals (68-71-68 – 207, -6)
*T13. OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational (70-71-70 – 211, +1)
T19. Arizona Intercollegiate (84-71-66 – 221, +8)
*Cal's top finisher
#Oregon’s Norman Xiong defeated Morikawa on third (No. 9) and Arizona’s George Cunningham on first (No. 9) playoff holes
Sophomore (2016-17)
• Final Rankings – No. 4 Golfstat, No. 13 Golfweek/Sagarin
• Stats – 11 stroke-play events, 33 rounds, 2308 strokes, 69.94 stroke average
• Individual Medalist Honors – 1
• Top-5 Finishes – 5
• Top-10 Finishes – 8
• Top-20 Finishes – 10
• Cal's Top Finisher – 9
• Low 54-Hole Score – 199, -14 (Alister MacKenzie Invitational, Fall 2016)
• Low Round – 64 (Alister MacKenzie Invitational, First Round, Fall 2016)
• Became eighth player in Cal history to earn first-team Division I PING All-American honors
• Selected to the All-Nicklaus Team
• Semifinalist for the Jack Nicklaus Award and Ben Hogan Award
• Member of the Haskins Award watch list
• First-team Division I PING All-Region and All-Pac-12 selection
• Pac-12 Men's Golfer of the Month for March of 2017
• First-team Pac-12 All-Academic choice
• Cal's Most Valuable and Most Improved Player
• Tied for 12th overall and tied for third among individuals at the NCAA Stanford Regionals but did not qualify for the NCAA Championships with only one individual spot from non-advancing teams available
• Cal's first individual at an NCAA Regionals since Jeff Hood at the 2005 NCAA Western Regionals also hosted by Stanford
• Second in the nation with a then school-record 69.94 stroke average
• Led Cal in nine of the 11 stroke-play events he participated in
• Shot par or better in 22 of his 33 rounds, under par 19 times and in the 60's on 15 occasions
• Shot at least one round under par in nine of the 11 stroke-play events he participated in and at least one round in the 60's eight times
• Played in his first PGA TOUR event as an amateur at the Safeway Open
*1. ASU Thunderbird Invitational (65-66-69 – 200, -13)
*#T1. Southern Highlands Collegiate (66-71-73 – 210, -6)
*3. Alister MacKenzie Invitational (64-69-66 – 199, -14)
*T3. John A. Burns Intercollegiate (71-66-69 – 206, -10)
*T5. Gopher Invitational (76-67-71 – 214, +1)
*T6. Pac-12 Championships (74-68-72 – 214, +4)
*T7. Querencia Cabo Collegiate (70-68-69 – 207, -6)
*T9. Maui Jim Invitational (71-66-70 – 207, -6)
*+T12. NCAA Stanford Regionals (70-66-74 – 210, E)
20. Arizona Intercollegiate (72-76-73 – 221, +8)
T44. Western Intercollegiate (73-75-72 – 220, +10)
#Oklahoma's Grant Hirschman defeated Morikawa on first playoff hole (No. 18)
+Team did not qualify but Morikawa qualified and played as individual ... tied for third among individuals not on one of five teams advancing to NCAA Championships while competing for one available NCAA individual spot
*Cal's top finisher
