SANDWICH, England -- He waved to the crowd, clapped his show of appreciation and then stepped to the microphone like he's been giving speeches for years. Collin Morikawa might have called it the "British Open,'' but he nonetheless handled the ceremony as coolly as he did the course at Royal St. George's.
Morikawa is just 24 years old but plays, acts and talks like he has been around for decades. Competing in his first Open, he won it -- a feat accomplished just twice previously in the past 25 years.
By playing the final round Sunday without a bogey and several times making clutch putts, it was Morikawa hoisting the Claret Jug on a sun-splashed day near the English Channel, winning his second major while holding off major champions Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm and Louis Oosthuizen.