Brooks Koepka has accused LIV Golf teammate Matthew Wolff of quitting on the course, telling Sports Illustrated he has “basically given up on him.”
Wolff, who gained in his third begin as a professional on the PGA Tour in 2019, joined LIV Golf final yr and performs for Smash, the workforce captained by Koepka. He has completed out of the highest 30 in opposition to 48-man fields in his final 5 occasions, together with a withdrawal.
“I mean, when you quit on your round, you give up and stuff like that, that’s not competing,” Koepka instructed Sports Illustrated. “I’m not a big fan of that. You don’t work hard. It’s very tough. It’s very tough to have even like a team dynamic when you’ve got one guy that won’t work, one guy is not going to give any effort, he’s going to quit on the course, break clubs, gets down, bad body language, it’s very tough.
“I’ve basically given up on him,” Koepka stated. “A lot of talent, but I mean the talent’s wasted.”
Wolff gained the Jack Nicklaus Award because the nation’s greatest participant as a sophomore at Oklahoma State in 2019, turned professional and gained in his third begin on the PGA Tour on the 3M Open. He had the 54-hole lead on the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot earlier than closing with a 75 to be runner-up to Bryson DeChambeau.
But he started to wrestle after which took a two-month break in 2021 to work on psychological well being points. He signed with Saudi-backed LIV a yr later.
Wolff, 24, withdrew earlier than the ultimate spherical of the LIV occasion outdoors Washington final month with an undisclosed damage. He was partially faraway from Smash’s social media pages.
Wolff instructed SI he was “trying to do what I can to play the best round of golf and that’s going to help the team.” Asked if he needed to be on one other workforce, SI reported, Wolff stared, shook his head and walked off.
LIV Golf is taking part in outdoors London this week. Wolff is twenty fifth within the factors standings.