Collin Morikawa began his journey on the Truist Championship in nice type, with a seven-under-par 63, with two photographs behind the chief Keith Mitchell.
Golf followers know that the 28-year-old parted methods along with his longtime caddie, JJ Jakovac, final week.
The American didn’t wait lengthy for a brand new collaboration, deciding to ask Joe Greiner to be his caddy.
Greiner didn't have many dilemmas, conscious that the 2 may make historical past collectively.
After the primary spherical, the American mirrored on the brand new collaboration, saying that he and Greiner are getting alongside nice for now. Whether it is to attract impressions after the primary day, it may be stated that there’s nice chemistry between the golfer and his caddy.
"It was superior. Uh, look, something new goes to be fascinating and it’s going to be a studying curve, however on the finish of the day, like, proper now, I’ve to take full accountability for the way I’m describing photographs to him, how we’re going by means of it.
It’s not so simple as, , 150 yards, hit it 155. Like, I don’t do numbers like that, so there’s going to be this studying curve, however I feel we did a extremely good job of simply being actually decisive on what we had been going to do, when you hit a little bit bit offline or a little bit little bit of a foul swing, like, there’s solutions to it, and like I stated, I simply must take accountability for what I’m doing on the market.”- he stated, as quoted by The {Golfing} Gazette.
Morikawa talks about followers reactions
Morikawa mirrored on the response of followers who was skeptical in regards to the affect of caddies on golfers' sport. The 28-year-old has no doubts that caddies play an enormous position in the case of the golfer's efficiency, so he wished to search out somebody who may actually assist him.
Collin addressed the criticism of followers who had been fairly stunned by his determination to separate up along with his former caddy though he performed nice. Morikawa stresses that the connection with the caddy is an actual partnership, which doesn’t imply solely that the caddy tells you which of them membership to make use of, however that it contains evaluation and different issues not associated to the sport.
