Welcome to Tomorrow Golf League TODAY. Each week from now until the end of TGL’s inaugural season, we will meet here to recap the physical, virtual and physical-virtual action from the world’s most-hyped professional simulator golf league. But this isn’t any old play-by-play. No, no. That requires too much writing. Instead, we will break down the week’s winners and losers via the most scientific form of analysis known to humanity: Superlatives.
It was another Tiger Tuesday on planet TGL. Although the big boss continued to struggle, he did deliver one of the, ahem, most memorable moments of the fledgling league so far. Relive that and plenty more as we get stuck into the TGL Week 6 Superlatives pt. 2 – Electric Boogaloo.
This Week’s Match:
New York Golf Club 10, Jupiter Links G.C. 3
Best Redemption Arc – New York Golf Club
New York switching up the walk out tonight with @Mets' Pete Alonso pic.twitter.com/DnelH1WGUb
— TGL (@TGL) February 19, 2025
Let’s hear it for New Yorkkkkkkk. After two grim performances to start their inaugural TGL season, New York Golf Club called in the big guns on Tuesday. No, we’re not talking about Xander Schauffele, who remained sidelined with an injury. We’re talking about Timmy Trumpet.
Joined by New York Mets sluggers Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil, New York Golf Club switched up their intro music, walking out to the iconic (and practically Mets-patented) trumpet blares of Timmy Trumpet’s “Narco.” The power move paid off, as Rickie Fowler, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Cameron Young attacked pins left, right and center, jumping out to a massive 8-0 lead by 8th hole. The Big Apple bombers—who made 83 percent of their putts inside 10 feet, hit 73 percent of greens in regulation and averaged over 310 yards off the tee—went to win 10-3, putting two precious points on the board. If the season ended today, NYGC would be in the playoffs, and as 2024’s scrappy Mets squad proved, they’re not a team you want to see in the postseason.
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Most Embarrassing – Tiger Woods’ yardage gaffe
During Jupiter Links’ first-ever TGL match, with the result already long decided, Kevin Kisner skulled a bunker shot that looked like it was headed for one of his teammates’ foreheads before striking the flagstick like a missile. It was an embarrassing moment for Kisner, but it sent the SoFi Center, including teammate Tiger Woods, into a fit of spontaneous laughter.
On Tuesday, it was Tiger’s turn. On the par-4 13th, Woods stepped up and confidently hit a 60-degree lob wedge. It was a perfectly executed shot. He hit his yardage, 99, right on the number. There was just one problem: The yardage was actually 199. As the cameras pulled back from a baffled, mortified Woods, Kevin Kisner and Tom Kim were found doubled over with laughter, making the most of the rare opportunity to laugh at the greatest to ever do it.
https://twitter.com/PGATOUR/status/1892031722285346937
As the subsequent replays proved, Rob McNamara, serving as Jupiter Links’ computer caddie, gave Woods “99 yards” assuming he knew the shot was over 100 and meant “199 yards.” Woods, blushing as red as one of his Sunday shirts, called the moment “one of the most embarrassing of his career,” but at least everyone got a good chuckle out of it. Laughter is the best medicine, after all, and Jupiter Links need all the Advil they can get right now.
The 2008 Detroit Lions – Jupiter Links G.C.
Tom Dahlin
Speaking of which, Jupiter Links G.C. were unprofessionally bad again on Tuesday. Tiger practically shanked a drive off the toe of his driver, Kisner couldn’t find a green to save a puppy’s life and Tom Kim called a timeout before his final putt on the final hole of the night … while down seven points. It was another hard-to-watch performance, and it proved that Woods’ decision to pull out of the Genesis Invitational last week was the right one. Through three matches, Jupiter Links have won just one, a narrow victory over TGL cellar dwellers Boston Common Golf. With two more weeks remaining in the regular season, both Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy—the league’s founding fathers and two biggest stars—are both poised to miss the playoffs. It probably goes without saying, but that’s not what you want to see if you’re pushing papers at TGL HQ this morning.
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Most Meh – “The Spear” (and other futuristic hole designs)
This has been bubbling up inside me since the opening night of TGL, and at the risk of sounding like a total boomer, I simply can’t hold it inside any longer:
I hate TGL’s futuristic hole designs.
Seriously, I would rather Marty Smith run a spear through my chest than have to see “The Spear” again. They look boring, they play boring and are entirely devoid of the personality and imperfections that make many of the most iconic holes in golf so unforgettable. Golf isn’t a game of ‘Tetris,’ it’s ‘Donkey Kong.’ Some TGL holes reflect that sort of mercurial chaos, but holes like Tuesday night’s “Temple,” miss the point entirely. The Soviet Union may be back, at least geo-politically speaking, but let’s the leave brutalist architecture in the past where it belongs.
On the Trade Block – Tom Kim
Tom HIM pic.twitter.com/Y0l7Kio5tR
— TGL (@TGL) February 19, 2025
To be clear, TGL doesn’t have trades or a transfer window or any of the other trappings LIV Golf has tried to adopt from mainstream sports leagues. But if they did, Tom Kim would be the first name on the block. Like an MLB squad selling a star at the deadline, Kim has a ton of value that Jupiter Links simply aren’t in a position to use on the course right now. Kim is still fighting hard—his 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole of singles was one of the few highlights for JLGC on Tuesday—but it won’t mean much unless Tiger turns back the biological clock, Max Homa rounds into form or Kevin Kisner starts taking this seriously (probably least likely of all). Whatever you think of Kim the guy, it’s become clear that Kim the player deserves a lot more than what Jupiter Links can give him right now.
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
