Smash GC re-signs Kokrak, McDowell, returns roster intact for 2025 season

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Smash GC re-signs Kokrak, McDowell, returns roster intact for 2025 season

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Smash GC will return its entire roster for the 2025 LIV Golf League season in hopes of building on the team’s encouraging 2024 campaign.

Captain Brooks Koepka, Talor Gooch, Jason Kokrak, and Graeme McDowell are set for a second consecutive year after Kokrak and McDowell were signed to new contracts.

“The band is back together,” said Kokrak, who as a free agent finishing in the Lock Zone (22nd in points) last year could have joined another team. “I had no intention of going anywhere else.”

McDowell finished just outside the Lock Zone, 29th in points with two top-6 finishes in 11 counting starts during the regular season.

“Brooks has been very supportive of me. And he trusts me,” McDowell said. “I go into this season feeling more confident about my position as a Smash player.”

In their first year as a foursome after adding Gooch and McDowell before the 2024 season, Smash won two regular-season team titles and entered the Team Championship as the fourth seed, its best position after any LIV Golf regular season.

The disappointment of a 13th-place finish at the Team Championship will provide ample motivation for a Smash team that includes two major champions (five-time winner Koepka and 2010 U.S. Open champ McDowell) and 2023 LIV Golf Individual Champion Gooch.

In addition to leading his team to tournament wins in Las Vegas and Greenbrier in 2024, Koepka also won individual titles in Singapore and Greenbrier. His five career LIV Golf individual tournament wins are the most of any player in the league, and Koepka is one of just two league players to have won at least one individual title in each of LIV Golf’s first three seasons.

 

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