Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\nMin Woo-Lee shines at Pebble Beach | 14:25<\/p>\n
Morikawa rose 25 places on the leaderboard into a share of second with the best round of day – a ten-under par 62.<\/p>\n
The two-time major champion made 11 birdies for the day in an incredible display of ball-striking that took him to 17-under for the tournament.<\/p>\n
Morikawa is hunting his first victory since 2023 and the world No.19 started the year with a missed cut in Hawaii.<\/p>\n
He said it has taken a lot of work on his mindset to come out of his slump.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of conversations with (mental coach) Rick (Sessinghaus). More frustration, right, of just I go out, and even on Thursday I think I had like three or four birdies on a course where I felt like I hit it really, really good,\u201d Morikawa said. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just going out, and he reminded me yesterday when I first came out and turned pro, like I didn\u2019t care about honestly making cuts or top-20s, I came out to win. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he told me that yesterday, there was that mindset switch going into today. I wanted to come out and win, win the weekend, win the tournament. Now we\u2019ve given ourselves a chance. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a small mindset adjustment and without him telling me that, who knows what I would have shot today. But I\u2019m out here to win. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you finish 30th, 15th, 3rd, at the end of the day like I want to win. I\u2019ve got to set that mindset at the beginning of the day, at the beginning of the week and now I think we\u2019ve given ourselves at least a chance come tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s Jason Day is tied 31st at 10-under for the tournament after a second successive 68.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Min Woo Lee was left visibly frustrated, throwing his golf ball into the Pacific Ocean after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[5487,6954,2095,64,63,689,244072,244068,244074,233043,244070,222085,222082,676,755,8462,1745,64922,244,5499,244065,244064,2041,2067,677,51334,244063,244069,9255,140465,244073,85,6953,244067,2614,13739,244066,244071],"class_list":["post-480749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-adam-scott","tag-akshay-bhatia","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-baffling-final-hole","tag-bogey-putt","tag-broomstick-putter","tag-cart-path","tag-chest-haha","tag-final-hole","tag-final-hole-meltdown","tag-final-round","tag-golf","tag-golf-ball","tag-golf-news","tag-greenside-bunker","tag-hawaii","tag-jason-day","tag-metre-putt","tag-mindset-adjustment","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-pebble-beach-company","tag-predicted-afternoon-storm","tag-putting-technique","tag-shots-clear","tag-signature-event","tag-soft-winter-conditions","tag-sports","tag-tee-times","tag-tosses-ball","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-weather-forecast","tag-weather-wreaks-havoc","tag-wind-directions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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