A month ago, when Collin Morikawa broke up with long caddy jakovac and brought to Joe Greiner to hold the bag, he did so because Something was felt out. The big champion was twice unable to articulate what was in the Championship in Truist in May, but he thought Greiner’s behavior would allow him to find the right feeling and get more ownership of his game.
But after five Greiner tournaments in his bag, Morikawa is still looking for the right feeling. He split with Greiner after last week’s travelers championship, where he ended up in a tie for the 42nd. He is in the process of searching for a new cadad.
“When I broke up with Jj Jakovac, I had it besides a tour of my whole career, and you get used to it,” Morikawa said on Wednesday Rocket Classic. “Jj is an amazing caddy, and I wish him all the best. So when I leave it, it’s a process for me to find it because I know only one way. I think people, they will be surprised, but the way it puts it alone because two people are great in what they do does not mean that they will be great together.
“I think Joe is an amazing caddy, but I think the way we’ve seen things, or just day a day, how we went about it, we were just a little on another page. That doesn’t mean it’s right or wrong, but I just didn’t feel good.”
He will have his KK Limbhasut college friend in the bag this week at Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club (Where the Morikawa is a favorite of betting) but will require a long -term option before the open championship next month, the latest season.
“It’s a process I’m going through,” Morikawa said. “Hopefully we will discover it when the time comes and I will let them all know.”
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Morikawa, the 5 -world ranked player, opened the season with a racing finish in Sentry. He had a ninth sunday at Arnold Palmer Invitational before he was led by Russell Henley. He was linked for the 10th in the player championship, but since then there has been a Top-10 conclusion. Morikawa has not won a tour from the Zozo 2023 championship and has been connecting to other aspects of his game, not only who carries his bag.
Last week in travelers, Morikawa experimented with Hitting some shots without a glove, hoping he would give him more control over the golf ball.
“When it comes to him, our hands are what makes us such good athletes and such good players (because) we have so much feeling,” Morikawa said last Thursday. “For some reason, when I removed the handle this week, it’s a kind of work.”
He then pulled back the curtain in his approach to find what he is looking for.
“I’ve made naked feet, so without shoes, and it normally works, but I don’t think I’m going to do it,” he said. “It is just trying a bunch of things. Look, we’re crazy. Honestly, we’re crazy because we try a lot of things, but that’s what makes us really good is that we are trying to find the little things.”
There were reports that Morikawa was trying different locals this week at Detroit Golf Club He placed a new Olson Gamer in the bag last week. He lost over eight strokes by placing in 2025 US Open and again fought with the flat stick during passengers.
However, the six -time PGA Tour’s winner said he will not change his gamer this week. But it can always change.
As for Caddy, Morikawa said in May that he had to “take responsibility” for what he is doing in the golf course. This line remembered what Rory Mcilroy said when it broke up with Long JP Caddy JP Fitzgerald after 22 wins all over the world and 95 weeks like World No.1 in 2017.
“I’ve set this line there for a while I’m trying to get ownership of my game a little more and trying to take more responsibility,” Mcilroy said in WGC-Bridgestone Invitational after sharing with Fitzgerald. “I’ve been walking the course with my backyard book this week and trying to choose more things myself.”
Morikawa is trying to do the same. Greiner was not the long-term answer, and Morikawa was aware that his search for a new caddy and a way out in the winner’s circle-would last longer than expected.
“I have to explore other options. I knew how to come,” Morikawa said. “I knew it would be a great start and it would be a fun thing for me to prove that I knew I put myself, but at the end of the day you don’t know how you would be, because we spend more time with them than anyone else in the world honestly. I spend more time with them ever. It is a real relationship.”
Morikawa is looking something. He is looking a feeling. That expedition can continue for some time. He knows this and is prepared For potentially long search forward
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