Collin Morikawa is the new king of The Open Championship after topping the field on Sunday at Royal St. George. Morikawa had to keep it together in the clutch with former champion Jordan Spieth breathing down his neck with a solid Round 4 of his own. With the victory, Morikawa is now part of an extremely exclusive club that only the legendary Tiger Woods was previously part of, according to ESPN Stats & Info and as noted by Adam Schefter of ESPN.

Collin Morikawa now joins Tiger Woods as only the second player to win both the Open Championship and PGA Championship before turning 25 years old, per@ESPNStatsInfo.

Collin Morikawa has been solid from the start of The Open Championship. He fired a 67 in Round 1 and followed it up with a 64 in the second. In the third, he posted a 68 before closing it down with a 66 on the final day of the tournament. All told, Morikawa finished 15-under 265, just two strokes ahead of Spieth.

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Ranked fourth in the world entering The Open Championship, Morikawa recorded four birdies in the fourth round while hitting par on the rest of the holes. He birdied the seventh, eighth, and ninth hole Sunday, giving him enough cushion and confidence in the face of Spieth's challenge. Spieth shot himself in the foot with a couple of bogeys in the front nine of the fourth round.

Morikawa, whose other major title is a PGA Championship he won in 2020, also pockets a cool sum of $2.07 million for winning The Open Championship in just his first try.