Tiger Woods’ team – but not Woods himself – will make its TGL second-season debut Tuesday night as it goes up against the first season’s runner-up squad.
Jupiter Links GC will play its first match of the season – and the first of back-to-back weeks with matches – against New York Golf Club, which is eager to bounce back from a Week 1 loss against the defending champion Atlanta Drive.
Jupiter Links will be without Woods, who is still recovering from wintertime surgery. The team will have newly signed Akshay Bhatia playing his very first TGL match.
Jupiter Links struggled in the first season and is hoping a little new blood and a new year will help to find good form early.
Here’s everything else you need to know ahead of Tuesday’s tilt at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. (Sportsnet East, Sportsnet+, 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT).
The match
Jupiter Links GC: Max Homa, Kevin Kisner, Akshay Bhatia (sitting: Tom Kim, Tiger Woods)
New York Golf Club: Rickie Fowler, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young (sitting: Xander Schauffele)
Notes
• Jupiter Links is the final team to make its season two debut. It went 1-4-0 in the first season.
• Bhatia will make his TGL debut as a fill-in with Woods injured and Tom Kim missing the match due to a scheduling conflict.
• Woods will, however attend all Jupiter Links matches in a non-playing role – he will wear a mic and be integrated into the broadcasts (interacting with teammates, opponents, the broadcast crew, and even fans in the SoFi Center).
• There were several areas of improvement for Jupiter Links as it finished last in average driving distance, greens in regulation, and total points won.
• Rickie Fowler, who played every match for New York in the first season, is making his season debut for New York GC, which fell to Atlanta in a championship rematch to kick off this season.
• New York is attempting to not go 0-2 for the second year in a row.
• This week will mark the debut of The Jup Life – the signature hole for Jupiter Links. The iconic lighthouse of the Jupiter Inlet on the Atlantic side of Florida provides the direction off the tee for the teams before they have to approach the ‘island’ GreenZone.
League standings
|
Team |
Wins |
Losses |
OT wins |
OT losses |
Points |
|
Atlanta Drive GC |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
|
Boston Common Golf |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Jupiter Links GC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
The Bay GC |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
New York GC |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Los Angeles GC |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
How it works
• Triples – nine holes – three players per team competing in an alternate-shot format.
• Singles – six holes – one-on-one, head-to-head competition for the entire hole. Each player from each team plays a total of two full holes during the session.
• Overtime – if the match is tied after 15 holes, the teams will play a best-of-three, closest-to-the-pin competition to decide the winner, with the hole location and orientation of the green remaining unchanged from the final/15th hole of the match.
• The shot distance in OT will be between 25-50 yards and decided pre-match by the match official. All players will play from the same spot. The ball must finish on the putting surface to be eligible.
• All matches will be played at SoFi Center with the capacity for 1,500 fans in seating that’s wrapped around the playing area — creating a ‘greenside’ experience.
Standings
For each match, teams can be awarded up to two points towards their regular-season total based on the following:
• Win in regulation = 2 points
• Win in overtime = 2 points
• Loss in overtime = 1 point
• Loss in regulation = 0 points
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