P.G.A. Championship 2020: Collin Morikawa wins his first major title

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The highly anticipated first major golf tournament in a season shaken by the coronavirus pandemic yielded an upstart winner on Sunday. Collin Morikawa, a 23-year-old Californian who played in his second major, won the 102nd P.G.A. Championship in a spectator-free TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.

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Morikawa, who turned pro last summer, shot a 64-under-par 64 on Sunday to finish on 13th. down for the win, his first in a major and third in his short time on the PGA Tour.

Morikawa went two shots off the lead in the final round, which had been held by Dustin Johnson, who finished in second place with Paul Casey, 11 down for the tournament.

The Harding Tournament, a modest municipal court on the misty southwestern edge of town, was to be held in early May, four weeks after the Masters, the traditional opening tour of the men's tour. The Masters are now scheduled for mid-November at Augusta National, and the United States Open at Winged Foot has been moved from June to mid-September. The only male major to be held outside the United States, the British Open was canceled for the first time since World War II.