As far as Paul Azinger is concerned, Brooks Koepka doesn’t need to be at Whistling Straits next week with the U.S.

Ryder Cup team.

If he doesn't like the event, the former team captain and current Golf Channel analyst said Wednesday, Koepka should give up his spot.

"I'm not sure he loves the Ryder Cup that much, if he doesn't love it he should relinquish his spot and get people there who do love it," Azinger said Wednesday, via ESPN’s Bob Harig.

“I don’t want to say it’s a bad week.

It’s the opposite of what happens during a major week.

The hectic nature of a Ryder Cup, paired with the team aspect, just isn’t something he enjoys.

“It’s tough,” Koepka said.

Still, despite his feelings for the event and his injury, Koepka said he’ll be ready to go.

Paul Azinger, one of only two US captains to have won the Ryder Cup this century, has told Brooks Koepka that he should pull out of next week’s match and “give up his place to someone who would love to play”.

Brooks Koepka says in an interview with Golf Digest that Ryder Cup week is hectic and “a bit odd” because it takes him from his individual routine and leaves him no time to decompress.

It was enough to make Paul Azinger wonder if Koepka should even play next week.

“I'm not sure he loves the Ryder Cup that much,” Azinger said during a conference call for NBC Sports, where he now serves as the lead golf analyst.

Between them, Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka seem intent on making Steve Stricker’s US captaincy difficult

A week before the Ryder Cup takes place, DeChambeau has revealed that he has “wrecked his hand” preparing for a long-drive contest while Koepka has called the biennial dust-up “a bit hectic, a bit odd” and expressed his frustration that he “can’t take naps”