TGL Week 5: Rory McIlroy Cannot Follow PGA Tour -Sejr with TGL -Sejr falling to Tommy Fleetwood’s LAGC

Rory McIlroy, fresh from a victory on Pebble Beach, ran hard in reality on Tuesday night at TGL as his Boston Common Golf Club fell 6-2 to the dominant Los Angeles Golf Club. It wasn’t quite Lakers-Celtics, pretty much because the Boston Ballfrog quota did not have a Jayson Tatum or a Larry Bird in the flock. McIlroy, Adam Scott and a Mustachioed Keegan Bradley couldn’t get anything started against the trio of Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose and Tommy Fleetwood as the black -clad LAGC started quickly and never escaped.

College Basketball and TGL are engaged in a battle for air time at ESPN, and on Tuesday night Kentucky-Ole Miss had preceded. The Sec-Lead-in game ran long, slightly delayed the start of the TGL match. This meant that ESPN -the audience did not see the players’ walkouts, which had the positive effect of getting the golf action to begin within seconds of the start of the broadcast.

LAGC, last seen Throttling Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Links Golf Club in Week 2 with a score of 12-1, jumped out to another hot start Tuesday night, driven by Morikawa’s pinpoint approaches and fleetwoods hot putter:

LAGC won the first three holes directly and four of the first five. McIlroy and Ballfrogs simply couldn’t get a putt to fall. The real world green and fringe has been difficult for players to read properly, and McIlroy, Bradley and Scott fought everyone to get binding or winning putts to fall from what should have been creative distances.

Bradley, who looked like an old-fashioned villain, finally got Boston on the board in the 12th hole in the match and put his tee shot within 2 meters of the cup. Rose chased his long bonding putt all the way to the edge of the hole, but the ball skirted just past. But McIlroy immediately put his tee shot on the 13th out of bounds, and Fleetwood quickly caught Lagc’s sixth point at night. Bradley took Boston’s second and last point at night on the last hole of the match, but at that time the result was no doubt.

Some uncharacteristic software failure cut up during the night. Fleetwood, of course, came to the Fleetwood Mac melodies mat a shot again after the simulator did not properly pick up his first attempt. And Morikawa managed to defy gravity with one of his shots:

On the whole, the evening felt more like a real competition – or at least like half of one. LAGC took a 5-0 lead into the singles and seemed to be called all night. Boston Common, meanwhile, was reduced to begging LA to throw the hammer (double the value of a hole) for an opportunity to get back in the fight, but Morikawa continued it in his pocket and kept Boston in check. Morikawa seemed more engaged than he had in his previous excursion, and Fleetwood was a charismatic addition in his TGL debut.

Technical errors aside, TGL settles in a groove as reliable, low -pitch’s weekday golf entertainment. When winning players start to enjoy themselves with some more outgoing exhibitions of emotions, it feels losing players the sting. The matches still feel a little long, but the product establishes its niche.

Before the match, TGL held a moment of silence for Kuldida Woods, mother of Tiger, who died earlier Tuesday morning. Tida Woods was present last week for Woods’ victory over the Boston Common, and the broadcast showed she enjoyed seeing her son at work.

TGL starts next week before returning to a presidents Day Tripleheader: Atlanta Drive GC plays LAGC and BAY GC, and then the bay plays Boston Common GC.