Collin Morikawa says he’s made a ‘crazy’ change to his irons after receiving advice from Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm

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Collin Morikawa may have made the Ryder Cup team earlier this year, but the two-time major champion will surely reflect that it was a 2025 season to largely forget.

The year promised plenty for Collin Morikawa. He finished second to Hideki Matsuyama at The Sentry while he was also the runner-up at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Morikawa was far from pleased with that result at Bay Hill.

Following The Masters, his only top 10 came at the Rocket Classic. Perhaps unsurprisingly, therefore, Morikawa is eyeing some changes to his game for next year.

Collin Morikawa shares the change he has made to his irons after speaking with Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm

Morikawa was known for his flawless iron play in the early stages of his career. In fact, he was third for strokes gained approach on the PGA Tour in 2025.

But that has not stopped the 28-year-old tweaking his setup.

Speaking in a video on Fore Play, Morikawa explained that he has heeded advice from the likes of Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm as he looks to get even better with his approach game.

“Crazy enough, I just added two degrees to every iron as of yesterday. Two degrees of loft,” he said.

“I’ve been under-spinning everything. Spin is the most important thing to control. The best players, whenever I’ve talked to a guy like Scottie, or Rahm was really good at it, spin, if you know how you’re spinning it, you know how far the ball’s going to go. Off-season, I was screwing around so I just bent all my clubs yesterday.”

The part of the game Collin Morikawa is planning to work tirelessly on over the winter

The glaring weakness in Morikawa’s game is his putting.

He was 153rd on the PGA Tour for strokes gained on the greens. Clearly, that is far from good enough if Morikawa hopes to end his wait for a seventh career victory anytime soon.

In the video with Fore Play, Morikawa was using a claw putting grip. And when asked about that, he suggested that he is very much tinkering to try and find the right formula.

“No [I’m not a full-time claw putter], I don’t know what I am honestly,” he said.

“Oh yeah [I’ll switch mid-round]. The reason why I keep switching is I find certain things in one grip that feels comfortable and it does something really well, and then another grip – so the claw for me, I have really good face control, but I come out of my putts a lot too.

“So when I go conventional, it rolls a lot better, but my aiming becomes worse. So the next couple of months, I’m going to make sure I figure it out and stick with one versus changing.

“It’s a bad thing, but I used to go to college events with three putters.”

The good news for Morikawa is that he only needs to look at Scheffler to see that it is possible to make a rapid improvement with the putter in hand.

But it is slightly concerning that he goes into the winter with uncertainty over which path he wants to go down.