2025 is the year of Caddy -Raarliness. How will it end?

Is 2025 the year of …Caddy -Raaarliness?

That is what I always think about when we approach the end of the season, when players seem very anxious about both their play and who wear their bags.

First Max Homa and Joe Greiner’s April came, a divorce initiated by Greiner. Homan has since established itself in the ex-Caddie of Tiger Woods, Lance Bennett, but finding a new internship is not always easy. (Looper Bill Harke spent a few weeks on the bag between Greiner and Bennett.) You can ask Collin Morikawa, who came through four Different loopers this year. I was there, on the Genesis Scottish Open, in the moments immediately after his first round with Caddy No. 4, Billy Foster, Matt Fitzpatrick’s former looper who drew Morikawa for a stint of two weeks. After their first 18 holes, Morikawa was well chuffed. Semi!

“If you have a new caddy, it is difficult for them to learn your game quickly, but I feel that he has a good feeling of the photos you have to play,” Morikawa told me. “I actually based a lot on him on a kind of club [between] 7-iron and 8 iron, 6-iron and 5-iron. Things like that. And we took some quality photos today. “

We.

Unfortunately for Morikawa foster that was as good as it received. The next day they will card and missed the cut and then flooded for the weekend at Portush. Morikawa had entered that fourteen days in the hope of having fun, “kick some ass” and learn more about what he needs from a looper.

It is difficult to know if he has achieved that, but we will get a good idea when he selects Caddy No. 5 for the play -offs. (Foster is now wearing the Lee Westwood bag, as always the plan.)

Then there was the split of Joel and Geno, Geno and Joel, the most sweet Caddy duo of the game, largely because they love each other so much. The world received a taste of it on Netflix. I received a sign in July and spent a few time with them at the Scottish Open. Being in their job is to be reminded why they worked so well. Joel has specific needs – a caddy that can go with the power, but always has the number when he needs it; A caddy with which he can be vulnerable and very real, even complaining – and Geno was all. But … it didn’t work this summer and it has to work.

Since the T2 of Joel and Geno in the Dominican Republic – who should probably have ended in a victory – the last eight events of the duo, together with seven missed cuts, have been opened, including that fatal Scottish. When the news was transmitted about them falling apart – strictly in the professional sense – the golf world fluctuated something right.

In the following weeks, the reason (s) for the divorce was not really explained, probably because it is not easy to explain. I am sure they will both speak in the end. And like any good rock band, they can even reunite. But for now they are apart. Dahmen has put his former coaches to work in the past two weeks and he has battle every time.

Sometimes that is all that it comes. A change in landscape, points of view, questions. That brings us to Joaquin Niemann. The man who can’t get his way to the battle on a large championship, but can certainly buy something else, have won five LIV events this year.

Niemann did not rush away from Royal Portrush, literally stamped his clubs after missing the cut. But then he came quite quietly a few days later at the Liv’s England event – with a new coach And A new caddy – and stamped on the field and won three. His new Tasman was, at least temporarily, his friend Diego Salinas.

When asked whether Niemann’s victory justified his decision, the 26-year-old Chileen said no. This was rather the result of building his game in the right way. (In other words, whoever wears the clubs may not matter that much.)

“I try to get better every week,” said Niemann, “and I feel that I don’t have to justify anything, every decision I make. I feel that every decision is the right decision.”

Perhaps that is the collection meals during this season of Caddy turnover: the boss is the boss.