Collin Morikawa earned his first major title with TaylorMade and Titleist gear in the bag.
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It only took Collin Morikawa two major championship starts to find the winner’s circle. The 23-year-old shot 31 on the back nine and went three under over his last five holes to secure the two-shot victory at the 2020 PGA Championship. The shot of the tournament came on the drivable par-4 16th, where Morikawa laced his tee shot 292 yards to within 7 feet of the hole with his TaylorMade SIM driver for an improbable eagle that vaulted him to the top of the leaderboard.
“We were just hoping for a really good bounce — and we got it,” Morikawa said of the tee shot.
Morikawa has kept the gear changes to a minimum since the restart, the lone change coming ahead of his win at the Workday Charity Open, where he switched back into a long-neck TaylorMade TP Juno putter. While reviewing videos of his stroke during quarantine, Morikawa noticed his putter was sitting with the toe up in the air.
Working with TaylorMade’s Tour team, they flattened the lie angle of his long-neck Juno putter, which Morikawa had laying around from when he used it at the 3M Open last year. The minor change was all Morikawa needed to find his stroke on the greens.
“It actually brought my hands a little more vertical, which is weird, but it brought them in a place that just feels comfortable,” Morikawa said on GOLF’s Fully Equipped podcast. “I don’t have to adjust anything….my putter’s already nice and flat to the ground.”
Check out Morikawa’s entire equipment setup below:
Jonathan Wall is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s Managing Editor for Equipment. Prior to joining the staff at the end of 2018, he spent 6 years covering equipment for the PGA Tour. He can be reached at jonathan.wall@golf.com.