Collin Morikawa's caddie, JJ Jakovac, nails hole-in-one before start of The Players Championship

Jonathan "JJ" Jakovac's sojourn to TPC Sawgrass successful Ponte Vedra, Florida, Wednesday proved to beryllium memorable. Jakovac is the caddie for Collin Morikawa, the No. 4-ranked golfer successful the world.

Jakovac typically watches arsenic Morikawa aces shots successful beforehand of fans. 

But this time, the caddie had a accidental to radiance erstwhile helium arrived astatine the tee container astatine the par-3 "Island Green." 

Jakovac deed a shot and watched it concisely settee connected the green's downslope earlier rolling backmost to implicit the ace.

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Jonathan "JJ" Jakovac, Collin Morikawa's caddie, throws writer to cheque the upwind connected the 14th spread tee during the 3rd circular of the Arnold Palmer Invitational astatine Bay Hill Club and Lodge March 8, 2025, successful Orlando, Fla.  (Keyur Khamar/PGA circuit via Getty Images)

Jakovac recalled his thought process successful the moments aft helium deed the ball. 

"It had to thrust the upwind to get there," helium told Golfweek. "Right arsenic it came off, I was like, 'That's a cleanable enactment if it lands the close distance.' It started spinning, and I was like, 'This has a heckuva chance.'"

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Jakovac was participating successful the yearly Caddie Contest. For the past 4th century, the lawsuit has been held connected the Wednesday earlier The Players Championship, giving caddies an accidental to instrumentality a changeable astatine the famed hole.

The Florida-Times Union reported Jakovac became the archetypal caddie successful the contest's past to marque a hole-in-one.

Collin Morikawa hands his operator to caddie Jonathan "JJ" Jakovac connected the 16th spread tee during the 3rd circular of the Arnold Palmer Invitational astatine Bay Hill Club and Lodge March 8, 2025, successful Orlando, Fla.  (Keyur Khamar/PGA Tour via Getty Images)

Min Woo Lee, Isaiah Salinda and Jason Day and their caddies celebrated aft Jakovac's ace. Jakovac earned nationalist subordinate of the twelvemonth honors doubly erstwhile helium golfed astatine Chico State.

Collin Morikawa speaks with caddie Jonathan "JJ" Jakovac connected the archetypal spread tee during the archetypal circular of The Sentry connected The Plantation Course astatine Kapalua Jan. 4, 2024, successful Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii. (Tracy Wilcox/PGA Tour via Getty Images)

Morikawa besides talked astir the unsocial moment. 

"Any hole-in-one is special," helium said. "A hole-in-one connected 17 against each different caddie ..."

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With his hole-in-one, Jakovac took location an undisclosed cookware of wealth and a $10,000 sponsor grant and was granted acces to VIP parking for the remainder of the tournament. 

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