After world No. 1 obsession, Collin Morikawa has new mindset to return to form

Collin Morikawa was on the precipice of history.

All he had to do was hold his five-shot, 54-hole lead at the Hero World Challenge and he would become the second fastest-ever to world No. 1, behind Tiger Woods.

Instead, the 2021 Open champion fumbled his lead with a final-round 76 and Viktor Hovland stormed from six shots back to win. Morikawa finished T-5.

"I think that might have played a factor in how I was performing beginning of the year," Morikawa, the world No. 4, said Wednesday at the Scottish Open. "All I cared about — not all I cared about, that's a lie. What I cared about was trying to get to No. 1 in the world."

For most of 2022, Morikawa, a two-time major champion, hasn't been his…