Collin Morikawa’s “greed” cost him the Masters, shot at Green Jacket

Augusta National punishes aggressive, greedy play, often turning promising ball flights into double-bogies or worse at the drop of a dime.

You must stay patient on this golf course, or else you will feel the pain that Collin Morikawa experienced on Sunday’s back nine.

His demise began on the par-4 9th hole, where Morikawa pushed his tee shot into the pine straw to the right of the fairway.

But he got greedy. He tried to punch a low hook up onto the three-tier green, which sits almost 100 feet above the fairway. With the pin sitting on the front left portion, the one place Morikawa could not miss was

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