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08-07-2025
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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
Yahoo
08-07-2025
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Collin Morikawa partners with caddie Billy Foster for the Scottish Open, British Open after shakeups
Collin Morikawa has settled on a new caddie, at least for the next two weeks. Morikawa is teaming up with longtime caddie Billy Foster for this week's Genesis Scottish Open and next week's British Open at Royal Portrush, according to Ben Parsons . Foster will mark the fourth caddie that Morikawa has worked with this season after he parted with his longtime partner J.J. Jakovac in April. Foster has worked with plenty of big names in the golf world throughout his career, including Seve Ballesteros, Darren Clarke and Thomas Bjørn. He most recently worked with Matt Fitzpatrick, and he was on the bag with him when Fitzpatrick won the U.S. Open in Massachusetts in 2022. Fitzpatrick and Foster split after The Players Championship earlier this season. Advertisement Morikawa and Jakovac worked together dating back to the start of Morikawa's pro career, but the duo split in April. Since then, Morikawa has bounced around quite a bit. He worked with Joe Greiner, who split with Max Homa, for several events, and then brought on KK Limbhasut, his former college teammate at Cal, to caddie for him at the Rocket Classic last month. Though Morikawa said his split with Greiner was amicable — he admitted that the two were 'just on a little bit of a different page' — he got into a tense exchange with a reporter at the Rocket Classic over his caddie change. That marked just his latest such exchange with reporters this season. Morikawa enters this week's tournament at The Renaissance Club at No. 5 in the Official World Golf Rankings. The two-time major winner has won six times on the PGA Tour, most recently at the Zozo Championship in 2023. He has four top-10 finishes this season, and he's coming off a T8 finish at the Rocket Classic in Detroit last month.
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27-06-2025
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Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa has contentious conversation with reporter: 'Don't put me down'
Two-time major champion Collin Morikawa had a contentious conversation with a reporter during a press conference prior to the Rocket Classic on Wednesday. Morikawa, 28, took issue with a quote that Golfweek reporter Adam Schupak put in his story about Morikawa's recent caddie change. Schupak wrote a story covering Morikawa's caddie change, and said it was unclear who Morikawa would have as his caddie permanently going forward. Schupak included this quote from Morikawa in the story. "Ask me anything you want in my press conference later. I'm with my pro-am partners now," was the quote Schupak used from Morikawa in his story. When Schupak asked Morikawa at the press conference about who will caddie for him at the British Open, the golfer used the question to take issue with Schupak's use of his quote in the story. "I don't. And I read your article that you wrote. 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," Morikawa said. "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?" "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 said he thought he was giving Morikawa credit because he noted that Morikawa was focused on his pro-am partners. However, Morikawa told Schupak that that's not how he read it. "OK, we can all read it very differently. That's not how I read it," Morikawa said. "But I'm just telling you, I think there's a perspective where people can read it like that. So, I'm just going to leave it at that. We knew I was going to have media in two and a half hours. I'm on the first tee meeting my pro-am partners as they're teeing off." After Morikawa commented at the press conference, Schupak deleted Morikawa's original quote and updated the story with a new quote. It is not the first time Morikawa has ruffled feathers with the media this season, as his comments at The Masters made waves. Morikawa is currently tied for 35th at the Rocket Classic at the Detroit Golf Club as three-under par for the day. At the time of this writing, Min Woo Lee was leading the tournament after he shot nine-under par in the first round. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
