The second ever TGL playoffs are set.
Jupiter Links GC beat the Bay Golf Club in the last regular-season matchup on Tuesday to earn the final spot in the playoffs, joining Boston Common Golf, Los Angeles Golf Club and Atlanta Drive GC.
Here’s a look at the playoff bracket and the schedule ahead.
Top-seeded Boston Common, consisting of Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama, is the easy favorite heading into the playoffs. The team finished the regular season 4-1, the best record in the league, and was particularly dominant on hammers, posting the top hammer points differential in TGL this year.
While LAGC finished tied for the league’s second-best record, it still has some flaws. The group ranked fifth in hammers differential at minus-three, but they won’t be able to avoid hammers in crucial moments in the playoffs.
Atlanta Drive GC, led by Justin Thomas, Billy Horschel, Patrick Cantlay and Lucas Glover, won the first-ever TGL a season ago and is looking to repeat that success this year. While LAGC has avoided hammers, Drive led the league in hammers won, which will bode well in next week’s semifinal.
Jupiter Links got a massive stroke of good luck on Tuesday when Tom Kim drilled a hole-in-one on the penultimate hole to help give his squad the lead and eventually the win.
The question now is whether that luck will follow them into the playoffs.
Jupiter Links has been average at best this season with a 2-2-1 record, so it’s hard to envision the group pulling off an upset in the first round. Of course, it’s impossible to count out a Tiger Woods-led team completely.
