HERTFORDSHIRE, England — Brooks Koepka has accused LIV Golfing teammate Matthew Wolff of quitting at the path, telling Sports activities Illustrated he has “basically given up on him.”
Wolff, who gained in his 3rd get started as a professional at the PGA Excursion in 2019, joined LIV Golfing extreme week and performs for Wreck, the group captained by way of Koepka. He has completed out of the manage 30 towards 48-man boxes in his extreme 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 told 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 mainly giving up on him,” Koepka said. “A batch of skill, however I ruthless the skill’s wasted.”
Wolff won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the nation’s best player as a sophomore at Oklahoma State in 2019, turned pro and won in his third start on the PGA Tour at the 3M Open. He had the 54-hole lead at the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot before closing with a 75 to be runner-up to Bryson DeChambeau.
But he began to struggle and then took a two-month break in 2021 to work on mental health issues. He signed with Saudi-backed LIV a year later.
Wolff, 24, withdrew before the final round of the LIV event outside Washington last month with an undisclosed injury. He was partially removed from Smash’s social media pages.
Wolff told SI he was “looking to do what I will to play games the most efficient spherical of golfing and that’s moving to assistance the group.” Requested if he sought after to be on every other group, SI reported, Wolff stared, shook his head and walked off.
LIV Golfing is enjoying out of doors London this future. Wolff is twenty fifth within the issues standings.
