Tiger Woods will return to aggressive golf, minus many of the strolling, when he tees it up for Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership on the final evening of the TGL finals on Tuesday in Palm Seashore Gardens, Fla.
Sahith Theegala birdied the ultimate gap, giving Los Angeles Golf Membership two factors and a 6-5 comeback win over Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership within the first match of title sequence on Monday.
The perfect-of-three set concludes Tuesday evening with the second match and, if essential, the decisive match.
Woods has been serving as an adviser and unofficial cheerleader for his TGL workforce whereas working his means again from lumbar disk substitute surgical procedure in October and a left Achilles tendon rupture that occurred final spring.
The again operation was the seventh Woods, 50, has undergone.
The final time Woods participated in a full-fledged golf occasion was when he missed the minimize on the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon in Scotland.
Requested final week about enjoying on the Masters subsequent month, Woods stated, “I stated I’ve been engaged on it. Generally I’ve good days, typically I have unhealthy days. Disk substitute isn’t loads of enjoyable.
“… In order I stated, I’ve had loads of procedures previous to that, so the physique doesn’t fairly heal prefer it was once I was 24. Doesn’t fairly bounce again. So I’ve good days once I can fairly a lot do something, and different days the place it’s onerous to only to maneuver round.”
On Monday, Jupiter’s workforce of Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner led 3-2 after 9 holes of triples play towards Los Angeles’ workforce of Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Theegala.
In singles, Rose beat Homa after which Fleetwood topped Kim to put L.A. up 4-3. Theegala topped Kisner after which Rose defeated Homa as Jupiter went again in entrance 5-4.
After Fleetwood and Kim halved their gap, it got here all the way down to Theegala vs. Kisner. With the hammer thrown, doubling the worth of the opening, Theegala reached the inexperienced in two on par-5 fifteenth gap, and he bought the birdie. Kisner’s chip-in try from off the inexperienced would have halved the opening and given Jupiter the victory if it went in, however it got here up brief.
Within the inaugural TGL finals final yr, the Atlanta Drive GC swept New York Golf Membership 2-0.
Printed on Mar 24, 2026