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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Max Schreiber

Inside the Increasingly Tense Relationship Between Golfers and the Media

Collin Morikawa could taste victory, until it was washed away in a flash. 

The two-time major winner, with only one victory since the 2021 British Open, was leading by three strokes with five holes to play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in March. But on the par-5 14th, Morikawa missed the green and made bogey while his playing partner, Russell Henley, hit a 5-iron to 10 feet en route to a birdie. Morikawa's lead now was one. Then on the par-5 16th, Henley chipped in from 54 feet to snatch a one-stroke advantage that he would never relinquish. 

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