By Tatiana Ponil
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Collin Morikawa (born February 6, 1997) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He began his PGA Tour career with 22 consecutive made cuts, second only to Tiger Woods‘ 25-cut streak. Morikawa has six PGA Tour wins – including two major championships, the 2020 PGA Championship and the 2021 Open Championship, winning both in his debut. In May 2018, Morikawa spent three weeks as the top-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. He also became the first American to win the Race to Dubai on the European Tour.
Morikawa played collegiate golf at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2015 to 2019, winning five times, including the 2019 Pac-12 Conference Championship. Aside from his collegiate wins, he won the Western Junior, Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Sunnehanna Amateur and the Northeast Amateur. He played on the winning Arnold Palmer Cup team in 2017 and 2018, the winning Walker Cup team in 2017 and the Eisenhower Trophy team in 2018 that finished second by one stroke. In May 2018, he spent three weeks as the top-ranked golfer in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.
Is of Chinese-Japanese descent.
In December 2021, Morikawa got engaged to his long-time girlfriend, Katherine Zhu. They were married on November 26, 2022.
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Born
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- Aaron Burr (politician) –
- Babe Ruth (baseball player) –
- Ronald Reagan (40th U.S. president) –
- Tom Brokaw (newscaster) –
- Bob Marley (Reggae musician, founding member of The Wailers) –
- Natalie Cole (singer) –
- Kim Zmeskal (Olympic gymnast) –
- Collin Morikawa (golfer) –
Died
- Arthur Ashe (tennis player died) –
- Joseph Cotten (actor) –
- Merle Kilgore (country musician) –
- Keith Knudsen (member of the Doobie Brothers) –
- James Whitmore (actor) –
Events
- Massachusetts joined the Union as the sixth state –
- Robert E. Lee named Confederate general in chief (US Civil War) –
- Sun-Maid raisins trademark registered –
- Woodrow Wilson became first U.S. president to be buried in D.C. –
- Barbara Ann Scott won Canada’s first Olympic gold medal for figure skating –
- Elizabeth II ascended to British throne –
- Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor proclaimed Queen of Canada –
- You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling by The Righteous Brothers topped charts –
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one –
- Alan Shepard became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon –
- Mr. Fred Rogers molded the 100 billionth Crayola crayon. The color was named blue ribbon –
- The New England Patriots won their third Super Bowl victory in four years with a 24-21 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX –
- SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s Starman mannequin in a Tesla roadster –
Weather
- Temperatures in parts of Ohio and Kentucky did not rise above 0 degrees F all day –
- -10.3 degrees Fahrenheit, Boston, Massachusetts –
- 36.4” snow fell in North Foster, Rhode Island –
- Southern Louisiana had snow for the second time in three days, with one to four inches accumulated –
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