Collin Morikawa Thursday Flash Interview 2024 Tour Championship © PGA Tour

you make six birdies in the road you forget how hot it is no not at all no it's very hot today uh how I guess this is the longest R of birdies in you've had I saw that somewhere but I find hard believe but um what uh how do you what do you attribute what do you attribute that to especially on the on the new course on the layout uh yeah I just uh through the after nine I just told myself to start only thinking about my shot and not worrying about you know if the ball's going to be perfect or not and we executed some shots made some putts um look the game's good enough to to come out here and win I I just got to get out of my own head and I've talked a lot about that you know it's it's hard because you try and perfect this game and you know it's it is what it is you know sometimes it doesn't go your way but you make doable scores and today it just got in a nice Rhythm kind of around that turn was this one of those runs you've talked about seeking uh yeah I mean I wish started on whole one um but it's going to be a good reminder kind of going in the next 3 days that you know I I just got to see my shot and execute you know I was just thinking a little bit too much and um not that I'm trying to do too much but just there's this nice flow and Rhythm you know in your routine sometimes when you when you're playing well and it's how do you find that and sometimes it's just barely off but it causes some bad shots was any of that from going that greens were that firm and you were trying to be perfect or no it's honestly it's just me I I get in my own head it's what I end up trying to do a lot of the times and um you know it kind of goes against me um a lot of the times when you try and do that when you try and play golf in your head why just cuz I I I want to see the perfect shot you know I want to see this kind of high peely cut that I've I've always hit and you know you work so hard on the Range and the weeks before to to hit this shot and sometimes it doesn't produce that and but it doesn't mean that's you know you have to play golf like that and at the end of the day it's like I'm trying to hit it 150 yards I just wanted to land 150 yards and let it figure out from there so um you know it's knowing what to accept and what not to accept out there you don't seem like you're thrilled though no I am I I mean it's the first day like I mean I I got three more days you played well fundamentally you point out make a lot yeah uh I I mean yeah you you hit some different shots the looks into the greens the approach shots are very different um that before you know the greens were pretty standard they were just kind of circular all back to front not a lot of slope you got a lot more slope now so I think it it penalizes you a little bit more if you're in the rough I mean you're going to get jumpers so you can't necessarily just like run it up and just end up in the middle of the green as easy as you did before um but with those slopes and with wedges in your hand you're able to kind of knock it a little closer to some holes because of those slopes and use the slop so so uh there's a balance you know you hit it you hit it well just like any other course you know you're going to give yourself opportunities but definitely played a little bit shorter than I thought it was uh maybe just because of the wind direction that we had today versus kind of what we had in the practice rounds you spoke yesterday about feeling like even being six shots back was not too big of a margin to overcome you've done it before was that on your mind at all as you began the day no I mean I I just wanted to keep making birdies and climb up the leaderboard as much as I can um after the start and after nine I I just figured if I had you know three under three birdies on the back with no Bogies it would have been nice to just kind of end the day and it's nice to kind of stream that together and you know I wish I had one more on 18 but it is what it is and we're going to kind of use that back nine to hopefully push push ourselves the next three days than thanks guys