We’re nonetheless comparatively new with this entire team-golf factor, but it surely’s clear that some professional golfers thrive rather more than others in a team-based surroundings. Of their last regular-season match and the primary of two Monday night time TGL matches, LA Golf Membership topped The Bay GC 3-1 in a match that had an entire lot extra character, showmanship and celebration than TGL had seen earlier within the season. Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood and Min Woo Lee, specifically, legitimately appeared to be having fun with themselves.
At stake Monday: the highest seed in TGL’s inaugural playoffs. The good thing about that seed is that the three groups within the decrease half of the TGL bracket — New York, Boston Frequent and Jupiter Hyperlinks — have all struggled way over the highest three groups. Coming into the day, The Bay had not but misplaced a match, going 4-0-0, whereas L.A. had three victories in regulation and one in additional time.
Early on, The Bay held a determined edge. Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark and Lee gained Holes 3, 4 and 6 to leap out to a 3-0 lead over Theegala, Fleetwood and Collin Morikawa. The run featured a near-ace from Clark:
However L.A. evened up the match by successful the ninth on a declined hammer, after which claiming a double-hammer gap on the tenth. That gap, the primary singles gap, noticed Fleetwood high Lee after the latter’s wayward tee shot.
After Morikawa and Lowry break up the eleventh, L.A. claimed the twelfth, and with it a 4-3 lead, when Theegala holed out from 20 toes to finest Clark:
Lee appeared to wrestle momentum again for The Bay when his method shot on the thirteenth rolled to inside inches, however Fleetwood rolled in a 21-footer of his personal to drive a tie. Morikawa and Lowry once more tied their gap, leaving Theegala and Clark for the ultimate gap. Theegala pressured Clark into a brief miss on the fifteenth and last gap, claiming the match and the No. 1 total seed for Los Angeles.
Nonetheless to come back on Monday night time: New York Golf Membership seeking to eradicate Rory McIlroy’s Boston Frequent GC from the playoffs completely.
The inaugural TGL season is reaching the top of its run; with the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week and The Gamers Championship subsequent week, the attraction of out of doors golf is rising. TGL has two weeks of tournaments remaining after Tuesday night time’s last regular-season matchup, and at that time it will likely be nearly time for the azaleas to bloom.
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