
When Collin Morikawa burst onto the scene, praise for his maturity was abundant.
During the 2020 Players Championship, Golf Digest published a feature headlined, “Collin Morikawa is the PGA Tour’s most polished 23-year-old.” In that piece, there’s an anecdote where Morikawa is waxing poetic about his caddie, J.J. Jakovac, who Morikawa parted ways with earlier this year, saying, “When I look back at the people he’s caddied for, it’s not like he’s bouncing around.”