Collin Morikawa’s tumultuous journey back into the PGA Tour’s winner’s circle is over. With a 5-under-par 67 in the final round, Morikawa won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am for his seventh PGA Tour victory and first win since 2023.
“I’m speechless right now,” he said.
Morikawa, 29, surged into contention Saturday with a blistering 10-under 62. It was the best ball-striking round of his career: He hit all 18 greens in regulation and gained 6.46 shots with his approach play.
Morikawa said his irons reminded him of his “old self” — a player who turned professional and immediately started winning on the game’s biggest stages. Morikawa lifted two major championship trophies before his 25th birthday, but the last few seasons haven’t been so easy. Morikawa struggled with his putting, went down rabbit holes trying to find his swing and cycled through several caddies. Starting the 2026 season with a missed cut at the Sony Open and a T54 finish in Phoenix, there was a moment in which Morikawa thought this year wouldn’t be any different.
But he quickly backed away from that belief. Morikawa said that he instead made a conscious mindset shift this week, inspired by his long-time coach and sports psychologist, Rick Sessinghaus.
“He reminded me yesterday when I first came out and turned pro, like I didn’t care about honestly making cuts or top-20s, I came out to win,” Morikawa said on Saturday.
Speaking on the 18th green to CBS Sports after securing the victory, Morikawa announced that he and his wife, Katherine, are expecting their first child later this year.
“We just started telling people this week. We said, what better way — the best way — to announce it to the world, to come out and win. There’s so much to life. There’s so much to enjoy. I’m hard on myself, like I talked about yesterday, but I’m just so thankful for the people around me.”
Collin Morikawa kisses his wife, Katherine Zhu, on the 18th green after his winning putt during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. (Mike Mulholland / Getty Images)
The day started with Akshay Bhatia, 24, holding a two-stroke lead and chasing his third career PGA Tour victory with particularly harsh weather conditions in the forecast. The PGA Tour advanced final round tee times and slowed green speeds in anticipation of 40 mph gusts at Pebble Beach on Sunday.
However, the trouble for Bhatia, a former junior golf prodigy, began instead when Scottie Scheffler began his ascent up the leaderboard more than an hour before the leaders teed off. The world No. 1 started the day eight strokes behind Bhatia. Scheffler had already posted birdie-eagle-birdie to open his round 4 under through three holes before Bhatia even hit a shot. The four-time major champion soon made another eagle at the par-5 6th, en route to a front-nine 30.
Nine players stood within two shots of the lead when Bhatia made the turn. One was Morikawa, who sat tied with Scheffler, continuing to surge, in addition to Sam Burns and Jacob Bridgeman.
But the tides continued to shift as the intermittent rain rolled in and the wind picked up. Scheffler made a late bogey at No. 15, and Morikawa and Burns reached 20-under after their 11th and 13th holes, respectively. Bridgeman soon joined them at the top. But then Scheffler made his third eagle of the afternoon on Pebble Beach’s iconic closing par-5 hole. He hit a 6-iron from 186 yards to inside three feet to post a final round 63, taking an early clubhouse lead. Scheffler made 151 feet of putts Sunday.“I had to do something special today to give myself a chance,” he said. “I was playing a bit more aggressive than I normally would.”
Morikawa took his first lead of the tournament on the 15th. He sank a 30-footer to reach 21-under, then another birdie putt on the 16th to get to 22-under.
But suddenly Min Woo Lee — set to share a plane with Morikawa to next week’s event, the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles — thrust himself into the picture. He closed with two consecutive birdies to steal Scheffler’s clubhouse lead, then began to warm up for a potential playoff with his friend and fellow Las Vegas resident.
Morikawa nearly found the Pacific with his tee shot on the 17th and dropped a shot with an eventual bogey. The American then stepped up to the 72nd hole of the tournament tied at the top with Lee.
Morikawa’s patience was tested when the group ahead took nearly 20 additional minutes to finish the hole, as Bridgeman found the beach and couldn’t get his ball to sit still on the putting surface in gusting winds.
But Morikawa secured the birdie he needed, hitting his approach to just off the green and two-putting for the victory. The win marks Morikawa’s first since the 2023 Zozo Championship. Over the past two seasons, he has had his fair share of close calls, but hasn’t converted. In six instances in which Morikawa began the final round in second place or better, he never stepped away with a victory. That changed Sunday.
“Just to be able to pull off those last two shots from the tee and into the green, it feels great,” Morikawa said. “I’m slowly trying to smile now because I think the tears are going away.”