Smash GC<\/a>, which did not earn a win but did have three podium finishes. Captain Brooks Koepka had arguably the worst season of his career and enters the week following a 50th-place finish at LIV Golf Indianapolis. Gooch had a bounce-back season, winning at Valderrama after a winless 2024, but Smash didn\u2019t get much out of Kokrak and McDowell overall.<\/p>\nPast Match Play<\/p>\n
2022 (Miami)<\/p>\n
Round 1 vs. RangeGoatsGC
Chase Koepka\/Jason Kokrak def. Turk Pettit\/James Swafford, 2 and 1 (Foursomes)
Brooks Koepka lost to Harold Varner III, 4 and 3 (Singles)
Peter Uihlein def. James Piot, 5 and 3 (Singles)
Round 2 vs. Majesticks GC
Chase Koepka\/Jason Kokrak def. Sam Horsfield\/Henrik Stenson, 1 up (Foursomes)
Brooks Koepka def. Ian Poulter, 3 and 1 (Singles)
Peter Uihlein def. Lee Westwood, 4 and 2 (Singles)
Round 3 (Stroke Play)
3rd Place, -6
Jason Kokrak: 68 (-4)
Brooks Koepka: 74 (+2)
Chase Koepka: 75 (+3)
Peter Uihlein: 75 (+3)<\/p>\n
2023 (Miami)<\/p>\n
Round 1 vs. HyFlyers GC
Chase Koepka\/Matthew Wolff lost to James Piot\/Brendan Steele, 1 up (Foursomes)
Brooks Koepka def. Phil Mickelson, 6 and 4 (Singles)
Jason Kokrak lost to Cameron Tringale, 2 and 1 (Singles)
Round 3 (Stroke Play)
10th Place, Even Par
Jason Kokrak: 69 (-3)
Brooks Koepka: 70 (-2)
Matthew Wolff: 72 (E)
Chase Koepka: 77 (+7)<\/p>\n
2024 (Dallas)<\/p>\n
Round 1 vs. Iron Heads GC
Graeme McDowell\/Jason Kokrak lost to Jinichiro Kozuma\/Scott Vincent, 19th hole (Foursomes)
Brooks Koepka def. Kevin Na, 6 and 5 (Singles)
Talor Gooch lost to Danny Lee, 1 up (Singles)
Round 3 (Stroke Play)
13th Place, +12
Graeme McDowell: 71 (-1)
Talor Gooch: 71 (-1)
Jason Kokrak: 78 (+6)
Brooks Koepka: 80 (+8)<\/p>\n
Individual LIV Match Play Records<\/p>\n
Brooks Koepka: 3-1
Talor Gooch: 2-1
Jason Kokrak: 2-2
Graeme McDowell: 3-2<\/p>\n
Outlook: Koepka\u2019s match play history and major championship pedigree makes Smash dangerous, but the chances of Koepka returning to form this week seem slim. Although none of the four players on the team have a losing match play record on LIV Golf, it would take a herculean effort for Smash to be there on Sunday with a chance to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"8. SMASH GC (59.50 points) Players: Talor Gooch (6th), Brooks Koepka (31st), Graeme McDowell (34th), Jason Kokrak (41st)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-83897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}