NEWS CLIP KOEPKA GIVES UP ON MATTHEW WOLFF

from SA Golf Trader Magazine July August 2023 edition

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According to a Sports Illustrated report, Koepka isn’t happy with fellow Smash GC member Matthew Wolff, who could be on the move following LIV Golf’s second season.

Wolff who won on the PGA Tour in just his third pro start in Summer 2019, has struggled over the past few years – and especially in recent months on the Saudi-backed circuit, which he joined a little over a year ago. He entered the event in London having not cracked the top 40 in his past five starts.

Wolff’s low point came during LIV’s event outside Washington, D.C., in May. After a pair of grueling team workouts before Rounds 2 and 3, both initiated by Koepka, Smash’s captain, Wolff, sitting 46th on the leaderboard, opted to withdraw prior to that Sunday’s final round, citing an undisclosed injury.

That decision apparently didn’t sit well with Koepka, and Wolff’s handles were later removed from Smash’s Twitter and Instagram pages.

While Wolff has continued to play under the Smash flag, in Spain and in London, that didn’t stop Koepka from publicly criticizing Wolff at Centurion GC

“I mean, when you quit on your round, you give up and stuff like that, that’s not competing,” Koepka told SI. “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.”

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