Hideki Matsuyama won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics, but lost his wallet during a stopover in London.

Matsuyama told Japanese reporters, including those from Golf Digest Japan, that someone stole his wallet and also took the passport and visas of his caddie, Shota Hayato, and his coach, Mikihito Kuromiya. They had no choice but to return to Japan and request expedited travel documents rather than travel to Memphis for the first game of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. The top 50 finishers in the season’s points race will advance to the second game, the BMW Championship at Castle Pines in Denver.

“There is a chance they will make it (to Colorado), but we have to assume it is close to zero,” Matsuyama told Golf Digest Japan.

According to the report, the earliest they could come to the US is shortly before the Tour Championship in two weeks.

“I’m going to play golf like I was before I had a coach,” Matsuyama told the Japanese press in Memphis. “I feel like all the responsibility is mine.”

He has hired Taiga Tabuchi, the caddie for fellow Japanese tour pro Ryo Hisatsune, to step in as caddie in the absence of Hayato, who famously bowed on the 18th green after his boss won the 2021 Masters.

“I’m glad he said yes,” Matsuyama said of Tabuchi, whose regular boss matched his career-best T-3 last week but missed the top 70 and a playoff spot. “He’s been working with Hisatsune this year, so I think he knows his stuff and speaks English, so I can rely on him.”

Matsuyama, who won the Genesis Invitational in February, enters the FedEx Cup playoffs seeded eighth, but he noted that the bronze medal remains safely in his possession.