The Smash GC LIV golf team, is captained by Brooks Koepka, and features his brother Chase Koepka (45th on LIV money list), John Kokrak (25th on LIV money list), and Matthew Wolff. Wolff is 27th on the money list, where the top 24 are guaranteed a spot in LIV for next season. Though in Wolff's case it may be with a different team.
Wolff had a solid start to the LIV Golf season with three top-10 finishes including a T5 in April in Florida, where Koepka won and Smash GC finished a season-best second as a team, sharing $1.5 million.
Wolff arrived at this week's LIV event outside London off a 44th-place finish in Spain, his fifth consecutive poor showing which includes a withdrawal from May's event in Washington, D.C., prior to the final round, where he was 46th out of 48 players after 36 holes.
“I mean, when you quit on your round, you give up and stuff like that, that's not competing,” said Koepka, the Smash GC captain, in an interview with 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—a lot of talent, but I mean the talent's wasted.”
“I'm here, you know, trying to do what I can to play the best round of golf and that's going to help the team,” Wolff told Sports Illustrated, adding that he's healthy. “I'm just here to focus on myself and try to play some good golf and that's what everyone's really trying to do, because golf is trying to put the best score up and then if that helps your team it's great.”
When asked if he wanted to be on another team, Wolff stared, shook his head, and walked off.
Brooks didn't hold anything back. There have been rumbling about the relationship between Koepka and Wolff over the last couple of months. Hey Matt....just play better! It's not that hard. Or be a team guy, one time!!!
