There are many young golfers who make a splash in the game before disappearing into obscurity and it’s something we’ve seen time and again over the years.

The pressure of being on the PGA Tour and being bigged up as the next best thing in golf can often go one way or the other for playe

As we’ve seen, the likes of Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth embraced this early in their careers, becoming multiple-time major champions and continuing to be star names on the TOUR over a decade later.

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We also see others struggle. In the modern game, players like Anthony Kim have fallen by the wayside, while others currently on tour like Tom Kim and Nick Dunlap, for example, have won early but are yet to kick on.

However, in the case of LIV Golf’s Matt Wolff, it’s hard to find another golfer who looked to have it all before effectively grinding to a halt.

Matt Wolff’s struggles since winning on the PGA Tour aged 20

This is in no way a take down of Wolff, who has had a more successful career in the game than most can dream and crucially, we know he has had some well publicised issues outside of the game.

However, when it comes to a player with pure talent and a golf swing that turns heads like Wolff’s does, it’s hard not to feel disappointed he hasn’t made more of his career so far.

Wolff won the 3M Open as a young man in 2019 and was expected to go on and be a winner for years to come. He finished T4 at the PGA Championship in 2020 before following it up with a 2nd place at the US Open the same year.

If anything, this showed Wolff deserved to be at the top and it was a case of when, and not if, he’d win again.

However, things haven’t worked out and a move to LIV Golf in 2022 has been borderline disastrous for Wolff.

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How Matt Wolff has had three teams on LIV Golf already

Wolff initially signed for the Hy-Flyers with Phil Mickelson before struggling and making a move to Brooks Koepka’s Smash GC. However, a high profile war of words with Koepka ensued at the end of his time there, and he’s now on his third team in three seasons having wound up at the RangeCoats with Bubba Watson.

His falling out with Koepka was hard-hitting, with Koepka saying “A lot talent, but I mean the talent is wasted” when he replaced him with Talor Gooch in 2024.

As of right now, Wolff is yet to win on LIV and his best finishes are three top tens, with one of those coming in Korea this year.

Nevertheless, this is a golfer who has simply not lived up to the hype. And while he will be happy earning a nice chunk of change on LIV, you cannot ignore that we have potentially missed out on seeing a superstar on the PGA Tour.

Time is on Wolff’s side, of course, at just 26-years-old. But the road back to the PGA Tour could be a long one and by then, his best days might have already been and gone.