Billy Horschel drained the second longest putt in TGL historical past to kick off the second season of the Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy created indoor golf league with a bang.
Horschel holed a 37-footer for eagle on the final gap to clinch victory for defending champions Atlanta Drive GC in opposition to New York Golf Membership in a rematch of season one’s Finals match-up.
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“About 5 toes out it seemed fairly good,” Horschel stated.
“What a heck of begin to Season 2 of TGL.”
Xander Schauffele had the prospect to match Horschel, however his putt missed to the precise at hand victory to Atlanta Drive, who skilled the set again of Patrick Cantlay and Lucas Glover withdrawing as a result of harm and there have been changed by Chris Gotterup and Corey Conners.
TGL unveiled a sequence of adjustments for its second iteration with a much bigger inexperienced and new digital holes together with every workforce having their very own specifically designed gap, however one factor that didn’t change was Horschel arising clutch within the large moments.
The 39-year-old has embraced the revolutionary idea greater than most, and has backed it up within the SoFi Centre to be among the best carried out gamers within the league – having drained an 18 foot double breaker to win final season’s title and the US$9 million prize for his workforce.
“I’ve performed skilled golf for thus lengthy, my seventeenth 12 months on the PGA Tour is beginning in a few days, and also you do it for thus lengthy and the grind of the PGA Tour with the damage and tear, it’s simply groundhog day again and again,” Horschel stated post-match.
“You form of lose that fireside just a little bit. You’ve the need to be nice and attain your objectives, however the fireplace isn’t all the time burning as sturdy as whenever you first got here out on tour.
“However whenever you come into one thing like this, one thing utterly totally different, that you just couldn’t think about, it brings you a kid-like environment.
“One thing model new, one thing enjoyable to be part of.
“To see it prove how profitable it was in season one and we’re going to have simply as a lot, and even higher success in season two, it brings that enjoyment and fireplace to have a good time and revel in what you’re doing.”