Matthew Wolff newest to depart PGA Tour for LIV Golf, sources say

Matthew Wolff, whose meteoric rise in the beginning of his PGA Tour profession was as stunning as his struggles in latest months, is the newest participant to defect to the LIV Golf Invitational Collection, sources confirmed to ESPN on Sunday.

Wolff, 23, is planning to play on this week’s LIV Golf event at Pumpkin Ridge in Portland, Oregon, the primary to happen in the USA. An announcement is predicted on Monday.

Wolff, whose unorthodox swing made him one of the widespread younger gamers on tour, tied for 40th within the Vacationers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, on Sunday. It might need been his final PGA Tour begin, as commissioner Jay Monahan has indefinitely suspended members as quickly as they tee it up in a LIV Golf occasion.

The Telegraph of London first reported Wolff’s departure from the PGA Tour.

A star participant at Oklahoma State, Wolff turned professional in June 2019 and received lower than a month later, whereas taking part in on a sponsor’s exemption on the 3M Open. Wolff made a 26-foot eagle putt from off the inexperienced to defeat Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa on the 72nd gap. He tied for fourth on the 2020 PGA Championship, his first begin in a serious, and was second on the 2020 U.S. Open at Winged Foot.

However Wolff has struggled over a lot of the previous two seasons. He took two months off from golf in 2021 to give attention to his psychological well being. He got here again on the U.S. Open, by which he tied for 15th. He has missed the reduce in seven of his previous 12 begins this season and hasn’t completed inside the highest 25. He’s ranked 74th within the Official World Golf Rating.

LIV Golf can be anticipated to announce the addition of Spain’s Eugenio Chacarra, the No. 2-ranked beginner on this planet. Chacarra stated on Twitter on Sunday that he was leaving Oklahoma State and turning professional. He wrote that he had “acquired a possibility I couldn’t flip down.”

“It’s a kind of trains that cross as soon as in a lifetime,” Chacarra wrote.