TGL’s first ever playoff match was a boil over because the fourth-placed New York Golf Membership knocked out first-placed Los Angeles Golf Membership within the first semi-final on the SoFi Centre.
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Los Angeles’ Tommy Fleetwood produced the spotlight of the match as he got here extremely shut to creating TGL historical past with a near-ace, however in any other case all of it was New York because the underdogs prevailed 6-4.
The Englishman hit the flagstick on the 189-yard par 3 dubbed Cliffhanger however as an alternative of dropping straight down for the primary ever hole-in-one in a aggressive TGL match, the display confirmed the ball kicking to the proper and leaving a roughly 9 foot birdie putt.
“I believed it seemed good. I believed it may dunk it!” Fleetwood stated.
Fleetwood was the primary ever particular person to make an ace on the SoFi Centre when he pulled off an albatross on a par 4 courtesy of an enormous kick off a rock, however that got here in observe earlier in TGL’s debut season.
The ambiance was notably extra critical than within the common season with much less joking round, and the competition was an arm wrestle for a lot of the nine-hole triples part of the match.
However New York managed to grab the momentum heading into the one part, taking a 3-2 lead.
They carried that ahead with final yr’s US PGA and British Open champion Xander Schauffele bettering world No. 4 Collin Morikawa within the singles, whereas Schauffele’s teammate Rickie Fowler additionally outplayed Fleetwood of their two head-to-head singles holes.
“We’re all fairly pleased,” Schauffele stated. “We thought it was doable however we knew it was gonna be an extended street, so we’re positively pleased to be right here.”
The match was sealed when Fleetwood’s brief birdie putt on the 14th gap lipped out, which Fowler described “as just a little reward”, and world No. 9 was nonetheless kicking himself afterwards.
“The technique was good. I feel total it was a fairly excessive commonplace match,” Fleetwood stated.
“A few errors, however even with the probabilities that I really feel like we may have taken, we’re all of the type of people who find themselves going in charge ourselves however I had a four-footer that might have taken us down the final gap and something may have occurred from there.
“On the finish of the day, they carried out higher, performed higher and holed the putts, and good luck to these guys within the ultimate.”
New York will now play the winner of Wednesday morning Australian time’s second semi-final between Min Woo Lee’s The Bay Golf Membership and Atlanta Drive GC in a best-of-three ultimate to crown the inaugural TGL champions, who break up US$9 million in prize cash.
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