Brooks Koepka didn’t mince phrases about his LIV Golf teammate Matthew Wolff.
Koepka, who captains the Smash GC squad, tore into Wolff throughout an interview with Sports activities Illustrated as friction between teammates appeared to succeed in a brand new degree.
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Wolff’s standing with the LIV Golf staff has been considerably of a query over the previous month as he was scrubbed from a few of the staff’s social media accounts after he withdrew from LIV’s occasion in Washington, DC, in Could resulting from an obvious harm.
The harm occurred throughout a compulsory early morning exercise led by Koepka, in keeping with “The Shotgun Begin” podcast.
“I imply, once you stop in your spherical, you surrender and stuff like that, that’s not competing,” Koepka mentioned about Wolff to Sports activities Illustrated. “I’m not a giant fan of that. You don’t work exhausting. It’s very powerful.
“It’s very powerful to have even like a staff dynamic once you’ve bought one man that received’t work, one man shouldn’t be going to offer any effort, he’s going to stop on the course, break golf equipment, will get down, dangerous physique language, it’s very powerful.
“I’ve mainly given up on him — numerous expertise, however I imply the expertise’s wasted.”
The blistering feedback come as Wolff has struggled in current LIV occasions after a sizzling begin to the 12 months.
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He completed top-44 in an occasion in Australia and adopted it up with a T41 end in Singapore and T30 in Oklahoma.
Wolff advised Sports activities Illustrated that he was attempting to do what he may to assist his staff and that he was wholesome.
“I’m right here, you already know, attempting to do what I can to play the perfect spherical of golf and that’s going to assist the staff,” Wolff mentioned. “I’m simply right here to give attention to myself and attempt to play some good golf and that’s what everybody’s actually attempting to do as a result of golf is attempting to place the perfect rating up after which if that helps your staff it’s nice.”
Wolff was requested if he wished to be on one other staff, however he shook his head and walked away, Sports activities Illustrated reported.
Wolff is twenty seventh on LIV Golf’s cash checklist, with the highest 24 assured a spot on the identical groups in LIV subsequent season.
Underneath the relegation guidelines, gamers ending between 25-44 are secure from relegation however are open to trades or releases by their respective groups.
Contemplating the way in which Koepka has talked about Wolff, it wouldn’t be exhausting to think about that Wolff may very well be taking part in for a brand new staff subsequent season.
This story initially appeared on the New York Publish and has been reposted with permission