2025 is the year of Caddy wonder. How will it end?

It’s 2025 year of…Kadiu wonder?

This is what I continue to think about as we approach the end of the season, when players look like they should complain about both their game and anyone holding their bags.

First came Split in April of Max Homa and Joe Greiner, a divorce initiated by Greiner. Homa has since been placed with the former Tiger Woods, Lance Bennett’s cadet, but finding a steady new one is not always easy. (Looper Bill arc was in the bag For a few weeks between Greiner and Bennett.) You may ask Collin Morikawa, who has passed four Different loopers this year. I was there, in the Scottish Open Genesis, in the moments immediately after his first round with Caddy No. 4, Billy Foster, former Matt Fitzpatrick who Morikawa signed for a two-week. After their first 18 holes, Morikawa was properly deceived. Two underneath!

“When you have a new caddy, it’s hard for them to learn your game quickly, but I think he has a good sense of the shooting you have to play,” Morikawa told me. “I actually relied a lot in it a kind of club (between) 7-Hakuri and 8-Hekuri, 6-Hekuri and 5-Hekuri. That kind of items. And we hit some quality shots today.”

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Unfortunately for the Morikawa-Foster, that was as good as he received. They scored a 76 next day and lost the cut, and then lit before the weekend even in Portrush. Morikawa had entered that two -week run hoping to enjoy herself, “hit some donkeys” and learn a little more about what she needs from a looper.

Hard hard to know if he reached any of them, but we will have a good understanding of him when he chooses Caddy No. 5 for play -off. (Foster is now holding the Lee Westwood bag, as was the plan always.)

Then was the split of Joel and Geno, Geno and Joel, the most beloved duet of Caddy game, mainly because they love each other so cursed. The world got a taste of it in Netflix. I took a plate in July, spending a bunch of time with them in Scottish Open. Being in their orbit will be remembered Why did they work so well together. Joel has specific needs – a caddy that can go with the flow, but always has the number when it needs; A caddy with which he can be vulnerable and very true, even complain – and Geno was everything. But… it was not working this summer, and it should work.

Ever since Joel’s T2 and Geno ended in the Dominican Republic – which should have ended in a win – the last eight events of the pair have ended up with seven lost cuts, including that open Scottish fateful. When the news broke up for their separation – strictly in the professional sense – it shocked the world of golf.

In the weeks since the year, the reason (s) for separation has not really been explained, surely because it is not easy to explain. I’m sure both will eventually talk about this issue. And like any good rock band, they can even be reunited. But for now, they are far away. Dahmen has been putting on his former coaching to work for the past two weeks, and he is quarreling every time.

Sometimes that’s all that falls down. A change of landscape, views, questions. That brings us to Joaquin Niemann. The man who cannot buy his way to quarrel in a big championship but certainly can buy anything else after winning five Livi events this year.

Niemann Jo-Aq quickly left the portrait royal, literally trampling on his clubs after losing cutting. But then he better proved quietly at the Liv event in England just days later – with a new coach AND A new caddy – and stomped in the field, winning from three. His new man of the bag, at least temporarily, was his friend Diego Salinas.

When asked if Niemann’s victory justified his decision, 26-year-old Chilean said no. On the contrary, this was the result of building his game properly. (In other words, anyone who holds clubs may not matter so much.)

“I’m trying to improve every week,” Niemann said, “and I feel like I don’t have to justify anything, every decision I make. I feel like every decision is the right decision.”

Perhaps this is the highlight during this Caddy circulation season: the boss is the boss.