{"id":33230,"date":"2025-07-02T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33230\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T18:16:10","slug":"brandel-chamblee-discloses-the-full-story-about-livid-collin-morikawa-after-caddie-story-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33230\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandel Chamblee discloses the full story about \u2018livid\u2019 Collin Morikawa after caddie story incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brandel Chamblee is not shy when it comes to giving his opinions, and he lived up to his reputation when discussing Collin Morikawa\u2019s recent outburst at the Rocket Classic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chamblee<\/a> has made a living in his role as a golf analyst by approaching every situation with a methodically thoughtful, yet no-nonsense approach.<\/p>\n

So when Morikawa<\/a> let loose at one journalist ahead of the Rocket Classic<\/a> last week, you just knew that Chamblee would have something to say about it, and he didn\u2019t let anyone down in that regard!<\/p>\n

Morikawa officially split with long-term caddie JJ Jakovac<\/a> at the start of May, and then decided to appoint Max Homa<\/a>\u2018s former caddie Joe Greiner two weeks later.<\/p>\n

Then, just before the Rocket Classic began, Morikawa decided to split with Greiner. That\u2019s when all the controversy began.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old two-time major champion refused to answer questions from journalist Adam Schupak just ahead of his tee time at the Pro-Am.<\/p>\n

\"CollinPhoto by Ken Murray\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He then bizarrely let loose at Schupak during his press conference, and he didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

Morikawa ranted at the press again after his first round at the Rocket Classic<\/a>, as he once again defended himself for failing to talk to the media way back in March at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.<\/p>\n

Now Chamblee has lifted the lid on exactly what happened in Detroit last week.<\/p>\n

Brandel Chamblee discloses full story about Collin Morikawa incident<\/p>\n

Chamblee was speaking on his \u2018The Favorite Chamblee Podcast\u2019, and attention turned to the controversy involving Morikawa and Schupak.<\/p>\n

And the one-time PGA Tour winner turned golf analyst and commentator revealed exactly what happened between the golfer and the journalist.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother dust-up was Collin Morikawa at the Rocket Classic getting chippy again about a story that was written,\u201d Chamblee said. \u201cThe source of the story was Adam Schupak, and I called Adam to get to the bottom of it, because I read the story, because it didn\u2019t really make sense to me. And essentially Adam said that he had heard that Collin had fired his caddie, the second caddie he had fired in a short period of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdam wanted to get there and get the story from the horse\u2019s mouth and find out. He wasn\u2019t going to talk about it or write about or post about it before he knew exactly that that was the case and wanted to get the surrounding details, and who\u2019s better than the horse\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe saw Collin Morikawa on the first tee of the Pro-Am and said, \u2018look can you confirm that you fired your caddie\u2019? And Collin said, \u2018yeah, that\u2019s true, I did\u2019. So it\u2019s confirmed and he goes, \u2018ok, care to expound on it and give us some further details\u2019? And Collin said, \u2018no, I don\u2019t want to talk right now, but I\u2019ll talk after the round\u2019. So Adam followed Morikawa\u2019s group for three holes wondering if Collin would reconsider and help him connect some dots, it would take a minute, 90 seconds, that\u2019s all it would take to answer the questions. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut when Collin wasn\u2019t doing that, Adam went in and wrote the story and confirmed that Collin Morikawa had fired his caddie, and said that Collin wasn\u2019t going to talk at the time, but was going to talk after the round, which is exactly what happened. And Collin, when he was out on the golf course, as players are able to do, they pull their phones out and they see the story. And Collin thought that it made him once again look like he was unwilling to talk to the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when he got in, he was livid and took issue with Adam in the media center and called him out,\u201c Chamblee continued. \u201cAnd Adam said, \u2018all I was doing was, I reported exactly what happened, exactly what happened \u2013 you said you fired your caddy, you confirmed it, but that you wouldn\u2019t talk more until after the round, and that\u2019s what I wrote\u2019. And Collin said, \u2018yeah, well, it makes it look like I wouldn\u2019t talk again\u2019, et cetera, et cetera.<\/p>\n

\"CollinPhoto by Gregory Shamus\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so again, I just think this is another example of the golfers confusing journalists with influencers. A journalist\u2019s job is to be out there and to cover the sport, cover the game and the players and do it with as much accuracy and integrity and validity and veracity that they can muster.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn influencer\u2019s job is in promoting the players to also promote themselves in hopes of gaining followers. These are not the same thing. Influencers are not journalists, but influencers are, pat you on the back, let\u2019s have some fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand Collin and all those players, that\u2019s their job, that\u2019s their office. And I understand if Collin\u2019s like, you know what, I don\u2019t want to talk now, but I\u2019ll catch you after the round. That\u2019s totally understandable. That\u2019s not an issue. I\u2019m not upset at that. I just, I don\u2019t understand why Collin then got upset.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Collin wanted Adam to just sit on the story for three hours. And it\u2019s like, again, that\u2019s not the way journalism works. It\u2019s like your job is to get it out and it to be accurate and true and fair, but it helps to get it out first. Because breaking news does matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Collin Morikawa is doing himself no favours right now<\/p>\n

Morikawa made things needlessly difficult for himself in Detroit last week.<\/p>\n

Schupak painted the 28-year-old in a very good light with his story, if anything.<\/p>\n

The journalist made it sound like Morikawa wanted to invest his time into playing with his amateur partners in the Pro-Am, rather than speak to the press.<\/p>\n

However, the two-time major winner took that completely the wrong way.<\/p>\n

He is struggling with his game right now, and that seems to be manifesting into a real attitude problem with the media.<\/p>\n

Morikawa needs to go back to basics and remember what made him such a good player in the first place. He\u2019s getting far too wrapped up in issues off the golf course right now, and that is clearly not helping him one little bit.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandel Chamblee is not shy when it comes to giving his opinions, and he lived up to his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[27764,10132,1430,13720,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-33230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-brandel-chamblee","9":"tag-collin-morikawa","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-rocket-classic","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114785012002879855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}