Collin Morikawa provides injury update two days before the PGA Championship, ‘a very weird feeling’

“Overall, still kind of dealing with some back stuff, honestly,“ Morikawa admitted.

*“*Like, I wish I was 100 percent healthy. The body doesn’t feel bad, just it’s uncomfortable, and there’s a trust factor I’m kind of having to deal with, which is — I’ve never had to deal with it.

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*“*I can’t imagine wanting anyone to deal with it because it’s just a very weird feeling of not trusting the body and yet knowing that things are going to be okay. So it’s just taking it day by day, doing what I need to do.

“Then go out, look, it’s four days of golf, one at a time, and I’m going to find a way to hopefully play some great golf starting Thursday.“

Unfortunately for Morikawa, he has clearly reached a point now where his problem is almost certainly psychological.

Collin Morikawa on the lessons he’s learned since his back injury

Morikawa responded when asked by one reporter whether there is a lesson to be learned from the way he has played since suffering the back injury at TPC Sawgrass in March.

“Yeah, there is,“ he admitted.

*“*I think certain golf courses allow for that. Weirdly, like Augusta we think of a big hitter’s golf course, a big golf course.

*“*But there are a lot of slopes, so I can use a lot of slope in that way. With the shot shaping, I just was so accepting of how things are going to go, and it’s so hard to do that, I think even in life, is just accepting that’s just the nature of it.

*“*I’ve been able to take that into it. It will be interesting to see whether I get frustrated or not considering that the body feels a little bit better.

“I hope to take that mentality I had at Augusta and just continue that into the rest of the year, because that’s a mentality I think the best have. That’s how, for me at least, I feel like I’m going to play great golf.“