Two-time main champion Morikawa is available in the market for brand new caddies after breaking apart with Joe Greiner forward of this week’s Rocket Traditional in Detroit.
KK Limbhasut, a former teammate of Morikawa in Berkeley, California, will carry his bag on the Detroit Golf Membership this week. Limbhasut, 29, will compete on the Korn Ferry Tour.
At a press convention on Wednesday, Morikawa described the Limbhasut as “a filling.”
Greiner, who labored with Max Homa till his break up in early April, was driving Morikawa’s bag for the previous 5 PGA tour begins. Morikawa minimize each however did not end greater than the seventeenth tie within the Belief Championship on Might eleventh.
Ranked fifth within the official world golf rankings, Morikawa ranked fiftieth within the PGA Championship and twenty third within the US Open.
Morikawa break up in late April with JJ Jakovac, the one caddy he had as an expert on the time.
“Folks, I feel they will be stunned, however the best way I put it’s as a result of they’re each good at what they do doesn’t suggest they will be nice collectively,” Morikawa mentioned. “I feel Joe is a good caddy, however simply how we noticed issues, or how we went with it, we had been only a bit on one other web page.
“It doesn’t suggest it is proper or fallacious, however for me it did not really feel proper. It’s a must to discover different choices. I knew it was coming.”
After splitting with Homa, Greyner was Justin Thomas’ fill-in-caddy in Masters and RBC legacy. Thomas ended an almost three-year unwinning drought on the tour. Minister Matt’s full-time caddy for Thomas has returned from accidents after the victory.
“I knew it will be an ideal begin, and it will be enjoyable for me to check that I knew I had put myself in,” Morikawa mentioned. “However on the finish of the day, we do not know what’s going to occur to you, as a result of we spend extra time with them than anybody else on the earth.
“I spend extra time than my spouse generally, and that is an actual relationship.
Morikawa mentioned he does not know who would be the caddy at subsequent month’s Open Championship on the Royal Portrush Golf Membership in Northern Eire, the ultimate main of the season.
