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Collin Morikawa reacts after making a birdie putt on the 18th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez) (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Associated Press)
PEBBLE BEACH – Scottie Scheffler staged an epic Sunday charge. The rain came and winds whipped, only to give way to unexpected afternoon sunshine. Third-round leader Akshay Bhatia stalled.
And through the opening steamed Collin Morikawa.
Morikawa, the Cal alum and two-time major champion who hadn't won on the PGA Tour in nearly 2½ years, found his way back into the winner's circle Sunday. He made birdie on the last hole to shoot a final-round 67 and take the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am title.
Morikawa finished at 22-under for the tournament, one stroke ahead of Min Woo Lee.
Morikawa was in a four-way tie for the lead – with Scheffler, Sam Burns and Jacob Bridgeman – as he stood over a 30-foot birdie putt on No. 15. Morikawa rolled home the uphill putt to leap into sole possession of the lead.
Then, on No. 16, Morikawa showed why he's one of the finest iron players in the world. He plopped his second shot only 8 feet from the hole, made the birdie putt and stretched his lead to two strokes.
But his bogey on No. 17, moments after Lee's birdie on No. 18, created drama.
Scheffler, firmly entrenched as the world's No. 1 player, navigated the first seven holes Sunday in 7-under-par, including two eagles. He slowed down on the back nine only to make another eagle on No. 18, after a spectacular 6-iron shot to 3 feet.
In all, Scheffler made 151 feet worth of putts for the day, an extraordinarily high number. The three eagles are the most in a single round in his career.
"I had to do something special today to give myself a chance," Scheffler said. "So I was playing more aggressively than maybe I normally do."
Scheffler ultimately posted 63 and tied for third. This probably counted as little solace, but he posted his 18th consecutive top-10 finish.
Sunday's final round punctuated a week of low scores at Pebble and nearby Spyglass Hill, with players pocketing birdies at dizzying rates. That's the beauty of Pebble Beach – it's a daunting course in blustery conditions, but fairly easy for tour pros when the weather is tame.
Plus, last week's early rain created friendly greens, welcoming to approach shots.
"When Mother Nature comes, and it rains and makes greens a lot softer, it just takes the teeth out of it," Morikawa said.
This offers a striking contrast to what players see when Pebble hosts the U.S. Open. That will happen again next year, when the country's national championship returns for the seventh time.
Pebble will feel like a totally different course in June 2027 than it did the past four days. The USGA will narrow the fairways and grow the rough, and the lack of rain in late spring will make fairways and greens much firmer (and thus more challenging) than they are in February.
"When the U.S. Open comes around, it's a very, very different test," said Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, who tied for third Sunday. "I think it's great because I always feel like a U.S. Open doesn't need to be a really long, brutal course. It just needs to be tough and require unbelievable golf and accuracy. This course is the epitome of that with the U.S. Open."
Briefly: Rory Mcllroy, last year's winner at Pebble Beach, shot a final-round, bogey-free 64 to soar into a tie for 14th. "No mistakes, that's the big thing today," McIlroy said. He made one triple bogey and three doubles earlier in the tournament. … Rickie Fowler, after shooting 66-64 to rise into contention, sputtered a bit on the weekend (73-70) and tied for 19th.
This article originally published at Collin Morikawa weathers the storm to snap drought and win at Pebble Beach.
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