Los Angeles Golf Membership handed Bay Golf Membership its first loss in TGL motion and secured the No. 1 seed within the playoffs by dominating singles to rally for a 5-3 victory Monday in Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida.
Main 3-1, Bay GC “threw the hammer” early on the par-5 tenth gap, earlier than Australian Min Woo Lee hit a shot within the water when taking part in in opposition to England’s Tommy Fleetwood.
LAGC’s Sahith Theegala threw the hammer again at Lee on his teammate’s behalf, trying to enhance the purpose worth of the opening once more. Bay GC declined, conceding the 2 factors to LAGC to tie the rating.
Theegala then beat Wyndham Clark with a chip-in birdie at No. 12 to place LAGC (4-0-1, 9 factors) in entrance. Fleetwood hit a chip-in of his personal on the following gap, halving No. 13 with Lee.
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Theegala beat Clark once more at No. 15 for good measure to offer the ultimate margin.
After the match, Theegala defined why he did a celebration recognized to be Lee’s signature transfer when he makes a chip-in — “paging Dr. Chipinski.” Theegala mentioned he knew it’d hearth up the opposite staff.
“If you are going to be doing that stuff, you have to be able to take it as effectively, so we will dish it again,” Theegala mentioned. “It is simply the enjoyable of it. It is one other factor that TGL type of permits us to do. It is type of tough to do this on a week-to-week foundation on the PGA Tour. It was simply all in good enjoyable.”
Lee had made putts of 13 and eight toes on the third and fourth holes to get Bay GC (4-1-0, 8 factors) its first two factors of the match.
The third member of Bay GC competing Monday, Eire’s Shane Lowry, mentioned he discovered himself caring a terrific deal concerning the success of his staff within the newly shaped league.
“I believe if something, it is likely to be a blessing in disguise going into the playoffs,” Lowry mentioned. “It is likely to be a little bit of a kick within the bottom that we’d like, and we will get our heads down and focus somewhat higher moving into there.”
New York nabs remaining playoff spot
New York Golf Membership scored 5 factors over the ultimate 4 holes to tug away for a 10-6 victory over Boston Frequent Golf, clinching a playoff berth whereas eliminating Rory McIlroy’s staff from rivalry.
New York’s Xander Schauffele “threw the hammer” on the par-3 twelfth gap earlier than making an 11½-foot birdie putt to beat Australia’s Adam Scott for 2 factors. The next gap noticed Cameron Younger defeat McIlroy after McIlroy landed in a greenside bunker and hit a poor shot over the inexperienced complicated.
On the fifteenth and remaining gap of the match, Boston wanted two factors to power time beyond regulation and threw the hammer immediately. It was Schauffele vs. Scott once more, this time at a par 5, and after Scott left an extended birdie putt brief, Schauffele chipped in off the perimeter from about 7 toes.
New York (2-2-1, 5 factors) joined Los Angeles Golf Membership, Bay Golf Membership and Atlanta Drive within the four-team postseason, which can embody neither Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks nor McIlroy’s winless Boston Frequent (0-4-1, 1 level).
Woods and McIlroy co-founded the digital golf league, which concludes its first common season Tuesday when Jupiter faces Atlanta.
Rickie Fowler, the third member of New York competing Monday, helped the staff rating two factors throughout triples when he landed his tee shot on the par-3 fifth gap inside 6 toes of the cup.
“After the beginning we had [to the season], simply coming into the season [the goal] was attempting to get within the playoffs,” Fowler mentioned. “After going 0-2, we have been simply attempting to dig and discover one thing … We’re simply beginning to discover some type, so it is good timing.”
Subject Stage Media contributed to this report.
