Tiger Woods and his Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership workforce prevailed 4-3 in additional time towards Rory McIlroy’s Boston Frequent Golf squad in the very best match but of the inaugural TGL season.
Monday’s indoor golf contest was tight all through, however Woods’ teammates, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner, got here up with clutch photographs in OT to ship the win.
TGL co-founders Woods and McIlroy stated the compelling competitors was precisely what they’d in thoughts after they first hatched the thought of the league, which performs its matches in a custom-built enviornment in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida.
“It could not have been a extra pleasurable show of golf, banter,” Woods advised reporters. “Everybody within the viewers was engaged. Hopefully, all of the viewership had been engaged. We as gamers beloved it. That is what we had envisioned for TGL, to have an expertise like this, and I feel we delivered.”
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McIlroy, who was making his TGL debut alongside teammates Keegan Bradley and Adam Scott, praised Woods, the very best participant of his technology who bounced again from a 12-1 loss towards the Los Angeles Golf Membership earlier this month.
Woods’ eventful spherical on Monday included a shot clock violation, a clutch 7-foot putt on the thirteenth gap and, finally, victory.
“He stepped up and delivered like he often does,” McIlroy stated. “It was a terrific match all night time, forwards and backwards, and precisely what the league wanted.”
TGL’s debut drew practically 1,000,000 viewers on ESPN, and McIlroy stated he hopes the league — which makes use of a five-story simulator display screen in addition to an precise, tech-infused inexperienced — will help appeal to a brand new technology of followers to the game.
“It has been actually cool to listen to {that a} youthful demographic, it is type of resonated with them,” McIlroy stated. “That is a extremely cool factor. One of many visions once we began was to attempt to interact that youthful demographic and provides them a bite-sized model of golf that they may get into and perceive. And hopefully, we have executed that.”
The 15-match common season runs by means of March 4, adopted by the playoffs later that month.
