PGA Tour star must take blame for poor form having been named ‘most difficult player’ to caddie for

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Numerous big-name PGA Tour players struggled for form during the 2025 season, and one man in particular needs to take a long hard look at himself.

It’s common knowledge that achieving sustained success on the PGA Tour is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

New talents emerge onto the scene every single year. The new batch of young players hit the ball longer, are more precise with their irons and hole more putts than the vast majority of players already out on Tour.

Plenty of change lies ahead on the PGA Tour, with new CEO Brian Rolapp planning new initiatives and innovative concepts to help bring the Tour into the 21st Century.

While there will be plenty of new faces flooding the PGA Tour next season, much of the attention will be on whether some of the underperforming big-names can rediscover their best form in 2026.

One multiple major winning golfer in particular needs to do a lot of work during the off-season, if he is to be considered as one of the best players in the world once again.

Collin Morikawa must address one issue after Smylie Kaufman’s claim

Collin Morikawa put in a really poor performance at the Ryder Cup for Team USA.

However, that surprised absolutely nobody, given his form on the PGA Tour over the past seven months.

The 2025 season has been a real rollercoaster for the two-time major champion. Incredibly, he has had five different caddies on the bag this year.

Morikawa split from his long-term caddie J.J. Jakovac back in early May, and he has gone through four more since then.

Joe Greiner replaced Jakovac, but he left the 2020 PGA Championship winner and the 2021 Open champion not long after.

Back in June, just after Morikawa split with Greiner, Smylie Kaufman suggested Morikawa is the most difficult players in the game to caddie for.

“I was curious, because at the beginning of the week, I was wondering, ‘well, that’s kind of weird that Joe Greiner’s not working this week. They must have had that pre-planned thing when he got hired on Collin’s bag because it seemed like all was well’. I talked to Joe Greiner at the US Open.

“I said, ‘hey, how’s Collin doing?’ He said he was good. ‘Feel like I learned something every week working for the guy’. But I also say this when it comes to working for Collin Morikawa, I think that’s probably one of the most challenging bags to work for, because of the way he plays the game,” he said.

“I think it’s very difficult to club him, because he hits shots that no one else hits. When I describe to you that he can be 180 yards and can just say, ‘you know what, I think I’m just going to take a lot off this five iron, I’m just going to chip-fade one’. Shoot, he could have been working for Max and that could have been ‘let’s hit seven iron here’.

“I think it’s very tough, I think he’s probably the most difficult player to caddie for, and I say that because he’s really, really, really good, and he’s really, really accurate. He’s very good at hitting his numbers, but I think it’s challenging to caddie for somebody that sees spin so much differently than most other tour players.”

Collin Morikawa’s 2025 stats and what they mean ahead of the 2026 season

Morikawa hasn’t won a tournament since October 2023, and he only recorded one top-10 finish on the PGA Tour from March onwards this year.

So let’s take a look at his stats from 2025 and try to determine where he needs to improve ahead of the new season.

It’s very clear to see from those numbers that Morikawa’s chipping and putting have really let him down over the past year.

He needs to spend the off-season working hard on those two aspects of his game.

However, if the 28-year-old is to have any chance of rediscovering his best form, he has to take a long hard look at himself and realize that maybe, just maybe, he has been the problem over the past year or so, not the numerous caddies who have worked for him.