World No.1 Ariya 'Nong May' Jutanugarn will begin the 2019 LPGA campaign in two weeks with new caddie Daniel Taylor after another split with former bagman Les Luark.
Ariya's team confirmed to the LPGA, according to a tour website posting, that she has made the change ahead of the season-opening Tournament of Champions on Jan 17-20 at Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Ariya's team-up with Englishman Taylor is on a trial basis.
Luark, an American, had caddied off and on for Ariya since she joined the LPGA in 2015, and all during her record-smashing 2018 campaign.
Last year, the 23-year-old Bangkok star won three times - including last June's US Women's Open - and completed an unprecedented sweep of the tour's major season-ending awards.
Taylor has previously caddied for several LPGA players, including South Koreans Pak Se-ri and Jenny Shin, Germany's Sandra Gal and most recently for his fiancee, Sweden's Pernilla Lindberg, who won her first LPGA title at last year's first major tournament, the ANA Inspiration.
Lindberg will begin her season with Irishman Roy Clarke. Clarke has caddied for Se Ri Pak, Jenny Shin, Sandra Gal and others on the LPGA Tour.
"It's tough sometimes being a caddie and a player," Lindberg told Golf.com. "It's a lot of time to spend together."
The decision seems rooted in the amount of time spent together. Lindberg added: "At the end of the day, you have nothing to talk about it. I can't ask Daniel, 'What did you have for dinner last night?'"
