{"id":46159,"date":"2025-07-07T14:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46159\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:19:09","slug":"collin-morikawa-hires-major-winning-caddie-for-the-open-as-new-partnership-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/46159\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin Morikawa hires major winning caddie for The Open as new partnership forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Collin Morikawa\u2019s quest for a return to winning ways has taken yet another turn as he\u2019s now moved towards an experienced new caddie ahead of The Open.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morikawa is without a win since the ZOZO in 2023 and despite coming close at the Arnold Palmer this year, he\u2019s not managed to get over the line.<\/p>\n

The American is a lock for the Ryder Cup due to his form overall but he\u2019s desperate to get the monkey off his back before September\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

Morikawa has been looking to different caddies<\/a> to try and help him out of his slump but as yet, after moving on to Joe Greiner, it\u2019s made little difference.<\/p>\n

Now, though, Morikawa has rolled the dice again and moved to bring in the experienced and major winning caddie, Billy Foster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"CollinPhoto by Ken Murray\/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesCollin Morikawa joins up with Billy Foster ahead of The Open <\/p>\n

There are many good caddies in the game but in the current era, few are more experienced than Billy Foster.<\/p>\n

The Yorkshireman has been out of work though since Matt Fitzpatrick parted ways with him a few months back but as expected, it was never going to be too long before he found work again.<\/p>\n

Confirmed in an exclusive report by Bunkered<\/a>, Foster will team up with Morikawa at this weekend\u2019s Scottish Open before going on to work together at Royal Portrush for The Open the following week.<\/p>\n

Foster \u2013 now in his 60s \u2013 admitted at the start of the year that he planned to scale back his time on the golf course.<\/p>\n

However, it seems the idea of being the man to get Morikawa back to winning ways is too tempting and he\u2019ll return to the bag in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Billy Foster\u2019s biggest wins as a PGA Tour caddie<\/p>\n

It goes without saying that winning the US Open with Matt Fitzpatrick was one of the most memorable experiences for Foster but he\u2019s been around the block enough to have other big wins as well.<\/p>\n

Foster has won more than 40 tournaments over his career, been part of 15 different Ryder Cup events, and has that major to his name with Fitzpatrick.<\/p>\n

Foster worked with some of the best in the business such as Seve Ballesteros and Lee Westwood but it wasn\u2019t until he won with \u2018Fitz\u2019 that he got his major win. <\/p>\n

With such a talented player in Collin Morikawa<\/a> to now sink his teeth into, it will be interesting to see if Foster can rekindle some magic and get the American motoring again.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin Morikawa\u2019s quest for a return to winning ways has taken yet another turn as he\u2019s now moved…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":46160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[35940,10132,1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-46159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-billy-foster","9":"tag-collin-morikawa","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114812391622150290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46159","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=46159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}