2 The surprising changes to Collin Morikawa make it close to finding it

Collin Morikawa has been looking: Search For a new caddyto the right right, for An old shaky feelingFor his first victory since the fall of 2023.

World no. 5 reached the Rocket Classic 2025 at the Detroit Golf Club with a caddy filled after sharing ways with Joe Greiner, which he had employed in May after sharing ways with Caddy Jj Jakovac for a long time. At the beginning of the week, Morikawa tested several different settings after losing over 10 strokes by placing in the US Open and passenger championship. Last week at TPC River Highlands, Morikawa hit some of his shots without a handle as he sought the right feeling with his hands.

All this led Morikawa to a three-par 69 of the first round, where he lost over four shots in green and said he “decided as a blind”. Seven shots from the first round on a course that delivers a ton of birds, seemed to not give the answers that Morikawa seeks to be divided into the winner’s circle.

But Morikawa made a change in the middle of the tournament on Friday and chose three blows to the greens while hunting an eight under 64 years old. He also chose almost two shots in access as he threw into quarrel.

Morikawa supported that show with a four-round round on Saturday, where he chose two-and-a-half shots in access and was positive in the greens.

The big winner twice will have to go Sunday to catch his drought-he lowers four shots behind the 54-year-old Aldrich potgieter leader-but two things have prompted a revival that bode well for the rest of the season: a change and acceptance.

“I asked Taylormade, in fact it was a project to build during the fall and they were able to come, and an early type of season when I had it, whenever I would try to use it and enter it, a week before I brought the blade to feel good, so I didn’t have it great to set it,” Morikawa said.

That new putter is a one-by-one Taylormade shoot of a Putri that Morikawa used earlier in his career. It is a cursing style coercion with plumbing neck and diamonds. Rersion that matches the old Morikawa glasses with the highest MOI and the latest Taylormade technology insert.

“Collin passed into a prototype prototype made for him at the Tayormade Plormade Laboratory at HQ again in April,” Taylormade Tour James Holley told Golf.com. “This prototype was inspired by Collin and his desire to try a head that was similar to what he played in college. We made a head with a single geometry to work with his placement. It is 2 parts, steel/hosel body and a single plate of aluminum. forward. ”

Morikawa passed into the Tayormade Spider V Tour Malli Putter after the masters this year, but only used the tight one for two tours before returning to a blade. He placed in a new round Logan Olson 1.0 with a face grinded last week in the travelers, but now he went to one-one-one he searched for the Taylormade craft in offseason.

The new Flastick has been a welcome look, but the most important development has come to the Morikawa iron game.

After losing over three shots at approach last week to Connecticut, Morikawa ranks first in strokes: approach this week. He is doing this by not forcing himself to try and hit his normal cut, but accepting the blow he currently has in his control and riding with him.

“I’m playing a slightly different shot than I would like ideally, but comes a point where I just have to stop fighting it and just have to go out and play golf,” Morikawa said on Saturday. “It is frustrating because some of the shooting I will have, I know what I can do, but they are simply not performing that way. So I have to take care of the shooting I have, which is a straight ball for a draw with two courtyards with two courtyards. It is very close distribution, which I don’t mind.”

Morikawa will try to synchronize the time of its swing so that it eventually returns to the normally reliable cut. But for now, he will not try to force it. He will play the shooting he has and hopes to be good enough on Sunday to find potgieter.

“If I can unite what I have seen over the past three days, I hope I can make that special day happen,” Morikawa said. “Look, I know what’s in question, I want to find a way to do it tomorrow.”

As for the long -term caddy, the Morikawa will begin searching after this week, but I know that it can take one more test and mistake to find the right personality appropriate in his bag.

While Morikawa has not won since the 2023 Zozo Championship, he has three Top-10 conclusions and two competitors this year. He has been close, but his game has plunged in recent months. Since his T10 in the player championship, Morikawa has not ended within 12 of a tournament. This includes a T50 in the Championship PGA and a tie for 23 in the US Open.

But a week in Detroit may have helped Morikawa unlock what you are looking for. Sometimes all it takes is acceptance and willingness to make a difference.