Golfists at all levels will try almost everything if they help their games.
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In the first round of TravelerCollin Morikawa did something that may not sound so radical for non-players, but from über-controlling and special Tour-Pro standards was the equivalent of free-free solution.
He poured his golf glove.
“Very, very strange,” Morikawa said of his ruthless game, which was a first career for him.
World No. 4 did not hit every blow sanis Mitten but many of them that he was asked about the decision after his opening three-nine 67 years old. He said he went relentlessly to most of his approaches, but held the handle for wedge shots.
Morikawa said that during his early practice of the week at Highlands of the TPC River He was “putting good shakes” in his handcuffs, but his shooting was constantly missing 30 meters. At one point he discovered that when he removed the glove, his accuracy improved.
“When it comes to him, our hands are what makes us such good athletes and such good players (because) we have so much feeling,” he said on Thursday. “For some reason when I have removed the handle this week, it’s a kind of work.”
That is to say, when his gloves were not very polished.
“The problem is,” he said, “Really really hot and is sweaty.”
Morikawa said that his strategy of his handle came to him as the balls were falling on Monday. While he was making his rhythm he felt as if he needed something, nothingto take on the right track.
Collin Morikawa Birds Birdies The 16th in the traveler’s opening round – without golf gloves!
“I’ve made naked feet, so without shoes, and it normally works, but I don’t think I’m going to do it,” he said. “It is just trying a bunch of things. Look, we’re crazy. Honestly, we’re crazy because we try a lot of things, but that’s what makes us really good is that we are trying to find the little things.”
What’S what is wild is, Morikawa is one of the elite strikers of the game. It ranks 4th on tour this season in SG: Access to Green and to We open to Oakmont Last week it was linked for the second in the greens in the regulation, with a 75%blind success rate. Of course, here is another thing for players, even the best in the world: they are always search. “I know I can get better and feel more comfortable,” Morikawa said.
If the paid tactics of the Morikawa dividends in the opening round it is difficult to say-it is impossible to develop a deep statistical immersion without knowing exactly which shots hit without gloves-but at least a rhythm without handle resonated with it: its shot at par-3 16 (See the video above), a high and arched pallor that landed about 5 meters left from the hole and stood there, leading to its fourth round bird. “Exactly how I’m used to seeing shots,” he said later. “Of course, it doesn’t have to be 5 meters, but only curvature of purpose is what I was really, really happy to see.”
No word still if Morikawa continued his game without gloves in the second round, but in difficult conditions, he shot 71 and, as of this writing, is related to the 24th.
While it is rare, the ruthless game on the tournament is not unprecedented. Fred couples has played his entire career nakedA habit he developed as a child when his parents did not want to retire for gloves.
Ben Hogan and Moe Norman also did not hold gloves. The same thing went to three US Open winners in Lee Janzen, Corey Paque and Scott Simpson. Among the contemporary pro -Tour groups without gloves, Lucas Glover – yes, also a winner of the US Open – is best known.
“Never wore one,” he said in a 2021 Subpar golf submission. “Years ago, (pro-teaching) Dick Harmon, in Houston, he will cut my fingers for me, hitting a bunch of balls when I was a child. He said, you should try it, your hands will be hurt, bleeding or whatever I said, well, I really can’t feel the club. 10-Handicap with a handle.”
