It’s almost time for Tiger Woods to make his debut in the technology-driven, indoor golf league he had a hand in bringing to life — and he’ll be mic’d up for his first match, too.
On Tuesday night, Woods, the winner of 15 Major championships, will hit his first official shots in the TMRW Golf League as his Jupiter Links GC takes on the Los Angeles GC at the SoFi Center in South Florida.
Last week’s TGL debut saw The Bay GC’s Ludvig Aberg, Shane Lowry, and Wyndham Clark dominate Xander Shauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick and Rickie Fowler of New York GC by a lopsided score of 9-2, and Woods — he’s one of the co-founders of the company that created TGL — was in the broadcast booth.
On Tuesday night, he’ll be live on the mic and the course.
Check out this primer to learn more about TGL and its rules — there’s a hammer, a shot clock, and a best-of-three championship finale set for late March. The format sees each team play 15 holes: 1-9 is a triples session where players on each team alternate shots, and 10-15 are head-to-head matchups, with each golfer playing two full holes.
Here’s a closer look at Week 2 action.
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Standings, schedule, results
The Match
Jupiter Links Golf Club vs. Los Angeles Golf Club (Tuesday, 7 p.m. ET on Sportsnet)
Woods teams up with Kevin Kisner and Max Homa (Tom Kim is sitting out) against Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala (Tommy Fleetwood is sitting out) at the stadium that houses 1,500 fans.
Woods and Rose are Player 1 on their respective teams, so they’ll square off in singles. Morikawa faces Kisner and Theegala and Homa go toe-to-toe.
TGL has 30 different hole designs, and the 15 featured in Match 2 are the same 15 that were played in Week 1. The course is high in the risk/reward category.
Woods’ team gets the opening tee-off on No. 1, and they start with the hammer — it’s a TGL score modifier that teams can use to increase the value of a hole by one point.
Looking at 2024 PGA Tour stats, LAGC ranks 1st among TGL teams in three categories: Fairways hit percentage, scrambling percentage and bogey avoidance. They’re last in Par 3 birdie or better rate, while Jupiter Links ranks 1st among TGL teams in that category. Woods’ team ranks last in scrambling and bogey avoidance, and third in fairways hit.
Jupiter Links boasts two players who’ve been dominant historically in match play: Woods is a three-time winner with a 36-12-0 record at the World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play. Kisner, a one-time winner who finished runner-up twice, is 23-9-1.
Jupiter also has the major edge in PGA Tour wins with 95 (82 thanks to Woods) and 15 Majors (all thanks to Woods). LA has collectively won 19 times on the PGA Tour, and three Majors, but edges Jupiter in the international victories department, with 21. LA’s squad also features an average world ranking of 19, which is second-best among TGL teams.
Matchup and player notes
Woods has been ranked No. 1 in the world longer than 13 years total — 683 weeks in all. He’s the only player to win all four majors consecutively, and his achievements are nearly endless. The 49-year-old hasn’t played much golf of late, though. On the PGA Tour in 2024, Woods played just five events: He withdrew from one, missed three cuts and made the cut at the Masters. Woods was playing through back pain and spasms, and had surgery on his lower back last September.
Rose, another former world No. 1, is an 11-time winner on the PGA Tour. Last year, he had two top-10 finishes in 19 PGA Tour starts. The 44-year-old played most recently in November of 2024, a T18 finish at the Hong Kong Open. Rose and Woods have never gone head-to-head in Ryder Cup singles play.
Morikawa, a two-time Major champion from Los Angeles, is the highest-ranked player in the TGL field this week, at No. 4. The 27-year-old comes into this event after opening his 2025 PGA Tour season with a second-place finish at The Sentry, where he led the field in greens in regulation percentage, total driving and average proximity to the hole.
Morikawa’s irons are one of his strengths, and he’ll go head-to-head against another heavy hitter in that category, Kisner. A four-time winner on the PGA Tour, Kisner played 23 events last year, and his best finish was T29 in Bermuda in November. Kisner regularly ranks among the top 20 on the PGA Tour in strokes gained putting.
Theegala, 27, has one win and four runner-up finishes since he joined the PGA Tour in 2022, and he’s ranked 13th in the world. Last year on the PGA Tour, he went for the green in two (on Par 4s) 67.9 per cent of the time. Only five players were more aggressive off the tee.
He’ll square off against Homa, who’s ranked 40th in the world. A six-time winner on the PGA Tour, Homa is 8-3-1 in his career Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup matchups. Both players made the cut to open the 2025 PGA Tour season at The Sentry, and both rank well above average in distance off the tee.
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