Brooks Koepka called out his own Smash GC teammate Matthew Wolff ahead of this week’s LIV Golf event outside London.
Koepka’s comments to Sports Illustrated came on the heels of Wolff withdrawing from a tournament outside Washington in May prior to the final round, citing an undisclosed injury. The five-time major winner also criticized the 24-year-old’s work ethic.
“I mean, when you quit on your round, you give up and stuff like that, that’s not competing,” the 33-year-old Koepka said to 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.”
Wolff’s promising start to the LIV season has gone south in a hurry. He currently sits No. 25 in LIV Golf’s player standings, with only the top 24 guaranteed a spot next season.
“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. “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.”
Wolff won the 3M Open in 2019 in his third pro start. He also was the runner-up to Bryson DeChambeau at the U.S. Open in 2020.
Koepka, in turn, has won the U.S. Open in 2017 and 2018 as well as the PGA Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2023.
–Field Level Media