Collin Morikawa is still without a win since October 2023 and there is genuine concern that he may never rediscover his very best form.
Morikawa has won six PGA Tour events including two major Championships but four of those wins were during Covid times, with either no fans at all in attendance or limited numbers.
2025 was a really difficult year for the 28-year-old. He recorded only one top-10 finish after the Players Championship in March and missed three cuts during that period.
Morikawa blamed his poor putting on the PGA Tour in 2025 as the main reason behind his poor form.
His chipping and pitching need to improve as well, if he is to start winning consistently again.
Morikawa has been described as ‘the most difficult player to caddie for’, so he has to take a lot of blame himself for his poor recent form.
There were actually numerous incidents during the 2025 season involving the PGA Tour star which set alarm bells ringing.
Collin Morikawa’s most worrying incidents during the 2025 PGA Tour season
Morikawa’s season actually began strong, with a second-place finish at The Sentry before back-to-back top-20 finishes at Pebble Beach and The Genesis respectively.
He then had a great chance to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill as he entered the final day with the lead.
However, Russell Henley leapfrogged Morikawa on day four and that moment was the start of the 28-year-old’s decline.
He left the property immediately, rather than speak to the waiting media and lost many fans as a result of his behavior. If you can’t act with class and humility after defeat, do you even deserve the good times?
Morikawa defended his actions the following week at The Players Championship but he would have known deep down that his actions were unacceptable.
Things got even worse for the two-time major champion just two months later.
Morikawa parted ways with long-term caddie J.J. Jakovac in early May and replaced him with Joe Greiner.
However, his relationship with Greiner only lasted one month, as he made yet another caddie change in June.
Incredibly, Morikawa actually had five different caddies on the bag throughout the season and that lack of continuity obviously didn’t do him any favours whatsoever.
The mere fact that he got through so many different caddies is a big concern. Morikawa was the common denominator during all of those break-ups and it’s clearly something he needs to address ahead of 2026.
Collin Morikawa was ‘not to be in a good spot’ at The Open
The American missed the cut at The Open – his second in a row after two poor rounds at the Scottish Open the previous week.
However, it wasn’t just his poor form at Royal Portrush that was such a big concern.
It was claimed that Morikawa was not in a good spot in Northern Ireland, either with his swing or mentally.
The 28-year-old shot rounds of four-over and three-over to miss the cut by six shots at Royal Portrush.
For a golfer of Morikawa’s undoubted talent to be so lost with his game was a major concern and perhaps an example of a case of paralysis by analysis.
Morikawa’s meltdown after the Arnold Palmer Invitational, his constant chopping and changing of caddies and the fact that he was so lost with his swing back in July were all hugely worrying moments for him during the 2025 PGA Tour season.
Now the onus is very much on him to work diligently on his game and to take a long hard look at himself in the mirror.
If he is honest with himself and fearlessly identifies his faults, he may well win again in 2026.
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