Collin Morikawa on adjusting irons, swapping putters and posing for photos with Tiger Woods

DUSEK: You won the WGC-Workday Challenge earlier this year with a blended set of irons. Then you made some changes before the start of the British Open. At the Northern Trust, you changed your setup again. Are you really picky about your irons or do you change your set based on the course

MORIKAWA: Earlier at the WGC, I had the TayorMade P-730s in as a combo set with the P-7MC. I used them all the way through the Scottish Open, the same setup, except I added the 4-iron, the P-770. It helped me to get a little more height, a little more launch. I needed the distance gap worked out just a little bit better, but that’s been great.

Move over to the Open Championship (the following week) and I wasn’t hitting my P-730s great out of the turf. I couldn’t figure out why, and it was a shot in the dark to throw some P-7MCs in. I was hitting my 6- and 5-irons great. I just tried some of the shorter irons. I worked it out with one of the PGA Tour reps from TaylorMade (Adrian Rietveld) on the range Tuesday and they felt great. I didn’t know exactly why, but I was able to hit it better and swing it better. I was swinging the way I always did and the ball was reacting the same exact way. That’s always a good sign when that happens.

Collin Morikawa’s TaylorMade irons. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

But that was a one-time thing. For me, I couldn’t figure out the turf out there in Europe and England. So, I had to figure out a reason and what to do.

Thankfully, we’re back here in the states, so the P-730s that I love, are back. I still feel more in control with them. I can work the ball more with them, which is fitting to my eyes. Putting them back in play was a no-brainer right after the Open.