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Yahoo
08-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Collin Morikawa Breaks Silence on Major Change With Blunt Message for Reporter
Earlier Wednesday morning, Adam Schupak of Golfweek reported that Collin Morikawa would be changing his caddie for the second time this season. Morikawa moved on from longtime caddie J.J. Jakovac earlier this year to partner with Joe Greiner, who dropped Max Homa before the Masters in April. Just five tournaments and five made cuts later, the No. 5 player in the world opted for a different caddie. Advertisement Schupak attempted to ask Morikawa about the change during the first hole of the pro-am on Wednesday morning. "Ask me anything you want in my press conference later. I'm with my pro-am partners now," the two-time major champion responded. While the sentence included in Schupak's article seemed innocuous at the time, Morikawa wasn't happy. "I read your article that you wrote," the star golfer said to Schupak in his press conference. "Look, I'm not here to tell people how to do their jobs, but I don't get why you would make me sound bad because you put out my quote that I was playing with pro-am partners out front. "Those guys are paying a lot of money, they're very important to the community, they're very important to the Rocket Classic, and for you to put out a quote like that to put me down and saying, hey, wait two and a half hours, I mean, you called me up on the first tee, you know?" he added. "I'm not going to tell you how to do your job, you can write whatever you want, this is America, but don't put me down like that because it's two and a half hours, Adam." Schupak responded, suggesting he was merely stressing that Morikawa's focus was on the pro-am and not responding to his question. Advertisement "Okay. We can all read it very differently. That's not how I read it," he said. "I don't know how...I'm just telling you like I think there's a perspective where people can read it like that." Following the contentious exchange, Morikawa explained the decision to move on from Greiner. "Just because two people are great at what they do doesn't mean we're going to be great together," he said before the tournament in Detroit tees off. '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's former college teammate KK Limbhasut will be on the bag this weekend. Advertisement Related: Collin Morikawa Gets Strong Message From Wife Before the Masters Collin Morikawa Breaks Silence on Major Change With Blunt Message for Reporter first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 25, 2025
NBC Sports
12-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Morikawa's caddie Jakovac makes an ace on No. 17
Collin Morikawa's caddie JJ Jakovac makes an ace on TPC Sawgrass' No. 17 during Wednesday's practice round ahead of The Players Championship.
