Tokyo [Japan], October 23 (ANI): Collin Morikawa grabbed his sixth PGA TOUR title on the Zozo Championship but it surely was his first because the 2021 Open Championship and first worldwide victory because the 2021 DP World Tour Championship. The win got here in his 99th begin on the age of 26 years, 8 months, 16 days.
The bogey-free 63 was additionally the bottom final-round rating by a winner in match historical past beating the earlier better of 65 by Hideki Matsuyama in 2021 and by Patrick Cantlay in 2020. It was additionally Morikawa’s lowest final-round rating of the season.
Morikawa’s six-shot win marks the biggest margin of victory in match historical past beating the earlier highest margin of 5 strokes by Hideki Matsuyama in 2021. He performed his closing 24 holes at Accordia Golf in Narashino CC in 12-under and had probably the most birdies 24 within the week.
Morikawa totalled 14-under 266, whereas Eric Cole (70) and Beau Hossler (70) completed in a tie for second at 8-under.
Ryo Ishikawa spearheaded a historic second on the Zozo Championship with three Japanese gamers making the top-10 for the primary time, as American Morikawa sealed a six-shot victory with a commanding closing spherical seven-under-par 63.
Ishikawa, a two-time PGA Tour runner-up, delivered an excellent 67 in Chiba ending tied for fourth with a four-day complete of seven-under 273, seven strokes behind Morikawa.
Indian-American Sahith Theegala (70) completed T-19, whereas Aaron Rai (67) and Akshay Bhatia (70) have been T-21. Sungjae Im (68) was T-12.
This stands because the 32-year-old Ishikawa’s most interesting efficiency on the PGA Tour since his joint runner-up spot on the 2013 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.
Compatriots Kensei Hirata and Ryo Hisatsune heightened the day’s pleasure for native followers, each carding matching 66s to finish in a four-way tie for sixth, totalling 274.
In addition to securing sizable prize cash from the US$8.5 million occasion, Ishikawa, Hirata, and Hisatsune have been handsomely rewarded for his or her performances, incomes themselves spots within the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico from November 2-5″I’m pleased to finish in the top-10. It’s been great to play in a PGA event here in Japan. The atmosphere was amazing,” mentioned Ishikawa, whose different PGA Tour runner-up end got here on the 2012 Puerto Rico Open.
Ishikawa expressed immense delight in being accompanied by Hirata and Hisatsune, aged 22 and 21 respectively, within the prime 10.
He added that their achievement serves as a testomony to the energy and high quality of the JGTO, which has been producing younger world-class abilities lately.
For Hisatsune, issues have been on the upswing since securing his maiden DP World Tour victory on the French Open final month.
Hirata expressed that he couldn’t have hoped for a greater debut, and it has fuelled his aspiration to play on the PGA Tour sooner or later.
The prime 125 within the FedExCup Fall standings via The RSM Classic will probably be exempt into Full-Field occasions and THE PLAYERS Championship subsequent season. TheNos. 51-60 within the standings on the conclusion of The RSM Classic will qualify for 2 Signature Events in 2024 by way of The Next 10 (ATT Pebble Beach Pro-Am, The Genesis Invitational). (ANI)