Collin Morikawa remains one of the best golfers of the last decade, despite an underwhelming 2025 season.
The former world number two claimed his first PGA Tour victory in 2019 and has since won five more, including the PGA Championship and the Open Championship.
Morikawa may have lost his way over the last 12 months, but he must still be considered a world-class player.
The Golfing Gazette now recalls his greatest achievement on the DP World Tour that no American has ever matched.
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Collin Morikawa is the only American golfer to win the Race to Dubai
The DP World Tour’s equivalent to the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup is the season-long Race to Dubai.
Collin Montgomerie (8), Rory McIlroy (6), and Seve Ballesteros (6) have won the competition more times than any other players.
European golfers obviously have an advantage because they compete on the tour more regularly, but PGA Tour stars Ernie Els and Vijay Singh are two of many exceptions.
However, only one American golfer has ever won the Harry Vardon Trophy for the Race to Dubai champion: Collin Morikawa.
Morikawa was in contention for the R2D title throughout the 2021 season after winning the Open Championship and WGC-Workday Championship.
He then participated in the final two events in the Middle East (the Abu Dhabi Championship and DP World Tour Championship), winning the latter by three strokes.
Morikawa finished the season with 5,856.40 points, over 2,000 more than second-place Billy Horschel (3,716.20).
To this day, no American player in golfing history can say they have achieved the same feat as Morikawa, including Tiger Woods.
Scottie Scheffler could have won the 2025 Race to Dubai
Collin Morikawa deserves extra credit for winning the Race to Dubai, but it is not only about playing great golf throughout the year.
For American players, it also requires a commitment to play outside of the United States after the PGA Tour season has finished.
Most PGA Tour stars are not willing to travel to the Middle East in November, even if they have a chance to win the Race to Dubai.
Scottie Scheffler is a perfect example of this, having won both the Open Championship and PGA Championship in 2025.
If the world number one had participated in the Abu Dhabi Championship and Tour Championship in Dubai, he probably would have won the award.
He accumulated more than enough points to contend with Rory McIlroy and Marco Penge, but he decided not to follow in Morikawa’s footsteps.