Collin Morikawa will relish life in the spotlight as golf's newest major champion and is already targeting more glory in the game's biggest events.

Playing in just his second major and 28th tournament since turning professional 14 months ago, Morikawa won the US PGA Championship in sensational fashion after a thrilling final round at Harding Park in San Francisco.

The 23-year-old emerged from a seven-way tie for the lead in the closing stages by chipping in for a birdie on the 14th hole and then producing a stunning eagle on the 16th by driving the green on the 294-yard par four and holing from seven feet.

Morikawa therefore has the same number of major titles to his name as missed cuts and the world number five is justifiably confident about his future ambitions.

"They are not expectations, they are all goals," he added. "Expectations are what you put on me. That is what I filter out and what I don't hear because I have set goals, and last year the goal obviously was to get some type of status (on the PGA Tour) and to learn from it.

"I had dinner with Justin Thomas (in Canada) and he told me, 'If you're good enough, you're going to be out here at some point'. And I already felt good enough, I just had to have the starts.

"I was able to have one Korn Ferry start as an amateur and two PGA Tour starts as an amateur and I learned a lot from them, but starting from Canada it was very new for me.

"I felt very comfortable, but there's a very different sense of comfort now."