Collin Morikawa splits with caddie Joe Greiner after only 5 tournaments
Andy Lyons
After a five-year-plus run with his first caddie as a professional golfer, Collin Morikawa only made it five tournaments with his second.
The two-time major champ is making a second switch on his bag of 2025 at this week's Rocket Classic, splitting with Joe Greiner. Golfweek first reported the news on Wednesday from Detroit Golf Club.
Morikawa linked up with Greiner in April. Greiner was coming off a successful two-tournament fill-in stint with Justin Thomas, helping him win the RBC Heritage. Previously, Greiner was the longtime looper of Max Homa.
Greiner had been a replacement for JJ Jakovac, who had looped for Morikawa since he turned pro in 2019. Jakovac was on the bag for both of Morikawa's major titles at the 2020 PGA Championship and 2021 Open Championship.
"I think people, they're going to be surprised but the way I put it is just because two people are great at what they do doesn't mean they're going to be great together," Morikawa told reporters after Wednesday's pro-am. "I think Joe is an amazing caddie, but I think just the way we kind of saw things or just day to day how we kind of went about it, we were just a little bit on a different page. That doesn't mean it's right or wrong, but for me it just didn't feel right."
Morikawa will have Korn Ferry Tour player and former Cal teammate KK Limbhasut on his bag at this week's Rocket Classic, according to Golfweek.
"I have to explore other options," Morikawa added. "I knew that coming in. I knew it was going to be a great start and it was going to be a fun thing for me to test out that I knew I put myself in, but at the end of the day you don't know how you're going to be, because we spend more time with them than anyone else in the world honestly. I spend more time with them than my wife sometimes. It's a true relationship."
Morikawa is currently No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking, but he hasn't won a PGA Tour title since the 2023 Zozo Championship. And that's the 28-year-old's lone victory since claiming the claret jug nearly four years ago.
In his five starts with Greiner as caddie, Morikawa finished T-17 (Truist Championship), T-50 (PGA Championship), T-20 (Memorial), T-23 (U.S. Open) and T-42 (Travelers Championship).
"Look, I wish JJ and Joe all the best, but for right now it just felt like I needed a fill-in," Morikawa concluded. "Got my buddy on the bag who played Berkeley with me who's actually still on the Korn Ferry, so I appreciate him doing that and we're going to go out and have a blast."