Tiger Woods’ ultimate match of TGL’s debut season resulted in defeat however his Jupiter Hyperlinks group completed off their maiden marketing campaign in tears of laughter.
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Jupiter Hyperlinks knew making the playoffs had been out of the equation previous to their 9-1 loss to Atlanta Drive as remarkably neither Woods nor Rory McIlroy, the co-founders of TGL, will function within the postseason.
The pair performed out arguably one of the best match of TGL first season when Woods’ group downed McIlroy’s Boston Frequent Golf in an extra time thriller however few would have predicated that conflict to have been a battle of the cellar dwellers.
Regardless of their struggles, Jupiter Hyperlinks had been seemingly having the time of their life within the ultimate match of the season.
Woods joked that he was feeling age earlier within the contest, however mirrored on the group’s, and the league’s, inaugural stanza by saying “we’ve had the best time” and that he’s “extremely pleased with what we’ve constructed right here”.
“It is a good group of men. We’d identical to to play just a little higher,” the 15-time main winner added.
He then wound again the clock with a 260-yard bomb along with his 5-wood to achieve a par 5 in two pictures as a touch that he could also be overcoming his bodily struggles forward of a rumoured return to the PGA Tour at subsequent week’s The Gamers Championship in addition to subsequent month’s Masters.
Woods was later in stitches when his teammate Tom Kim produced the funniest second of the night time.
The 22-year-old, who has been one in all TGL’s largest personalities, prematurely celebrated as a chip rolled in direction of the cup by letting go of his wedge and lifting him arms within the air as he turned to the group.
However Kim was rapidly awash with embarrassment because the ball lipped out, and Woods and Max Homa couldn’t cease laughing at their teammate’s expense.
“I didn’t suppose it might miss,” Kim stated on the published quickly after.
“I actually referred to as it and I didn’t suppose it may miss.
“It’s so unlucky, I can’t take it again. The worst a part of it’s I appeared behind. I simply threw it and didn’t take my eyes off it, it wouldn’t have been as unhealthy.”
The laughter got here earlier in addition to Kim shouted “fore” when Atlanta’s Nick Dunlap sprayed a tee shot into the simulator out of bounds handy Jupiter Hyperlinks their solely level for the night time.
Homa additionally created a couple of chuckles when he dubbed himself “the Seve of indoor golf” following a stellar wedge shot to arrange a par save.
The relaxed environment even prompted Woods to get his son, Charlie, to throw him down some rooster fingers from the group for a mid-match chew to eat.
Atlanta will subsequent face Australian Min Woo Lee’s second-placed The Bay in a semi-final on Wednesday 19 March Australian time, whereas the opposite semi-final the day prior will pit league leaders Los Angeles towards New York.
The primary ever TGL ultimate will then be performed on Tuesday 25 March Australian time.