Jupiter Hyperlinks GC defeated Rory McIlroy’s Boston Frequent to achieve the TGL remaining towards Los Angeles’ Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose.
Tiger Woods continued to sit down out of the 2026 season as he recovers from harm, whereas McIlroy returned to motion after his unsuccessful title defence at The Gamers.
Jupiter Hyperlinks GC, who completed in final within the inaugural season of TGL, upset McIlroy’s Boston Frequent 9-5 on the SoFi Heart, as Los Angeles Golf Membership dethroned defending TGL champion Atlanta Drive 6-4 led by Fleetwood’s strategic use of the Hammer on the 14th gap and several other clutch putts from Rose.
“Now the ‘Bad News Bears’ can play,” Woods stated. “So we’re back and we’re now advancing into the finals and it’s been incredible.
“As I stated, the bonding that has, that happens – it doesn’t matter what workforce you are on whether or not you are enjoying for Ryder Cup or enjoying Presidents Cup, World Cups, no matter it’s, the bonding that occurs on this, in groups, it is so completely different and distinctive.”
Akshay Bhatia, signed with Jupiter Hyperlinks as an alternate in January, has shot par or higher in 20 straight PGA Tour rounds because the begin of February. He starred alongside Max Homa, Tom Kim, and Kevin Kisner.
“I think the bond is the biggest thing,” Bhatia stated. “I’ve positively gotten quite a bit nearer with Max, particularly at tournaments. Now I really feel like each apply spherical we’re texting one another, and TK similar factor.
“Obviously to have the greatest player of all time in your corner is really, really cool. I’m glad that I was an alternate for this team because this is definitely the kind of the best, you know, gathering of guys that I could have imagined.”
Homa, who was matched up towards McIlroy in singles, delivered the clear sweep of their two holes collectively.
His par-saver on No. 13, the place he hit the Steph Curry ‘Evening night time’ celebration, proved to be the match-winning level.
“It’s kind of win or go home. Unfortunately, we’re on the ‘go home’ end of that tonight,” stated Adam Scott, who performed alongside McIlroy and Keegan Bradley.
Los Angeles overcame an early deficit with Rose nailing a 24-foot birdie to get Los Angeles on the board earlier than the 45-year-old handed his workforce the lead for the primary time within the match with a birdie at No 14.
Fleetwood’s strategic use of the Hammer on the 14th gap was a pivotal second within the match.
Los Angeles had been main 5-4 and threw the hammer with Billy Horschel needing to make a par to tie.
Patrick Cantlay tried to persuade Billy Horschel to just accept the hammer, so the workforce had a clear probability to win on No 15, however Horschel declined, and the workforce fell behind 6-4 and with it, the match.
Rose known as it “genius” after saying he had no clue what was occurring.
“I was unaware of it,” he stated. “Next thing I knew the thing [Hammer] was on the ground. So it was like, ‘What the hell’s going on here?'”
“It just felt like the right thing to do,” Fleetwood stated. “It obviously gave them a pretty tough decision to make. Maybe I got lucky with thinking the right way at the right time.”
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