TGL’s second season noticed the simulator golf league take extra strides ahead with some contemporary faces becoming a member of the acquainted stars from the inaugural marketing campaign on the SoFi Middle in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida.
After 15 matches of normal season play, the 2026 TGL Playoffs at the moment are set for March 17, with the 2 largest stars of the league seeing their groups make the playoffs for the primary time.
After a disappointing winless 2025, Rory McIlroy’s Boston Frequent squad got here out on a mission and earned the 1-seed within the TGL Playoffs with a 4-1 report. Their first spherical opponent will likely be Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks squad, which capped off their common season with an exciting victory over The Bay to safe the 4-seed — thanks largely to a clutch hole-in-one from Tom Kim on the penultimate gap of the match.
On the alternative aspect of the bracket are the defending SoFi Cup champions, because the Atlanta Drive earned the 3-seed however not too long ago acquired star Justin Thomas again in play. They’re going to face the star-studded 2-seed Los Angeles Golf Membership, which boasts three of the highest 5 gamers on the planet rankings at the moment — Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose and Collin Morikawa.
These semifinal matches will happen in a doubleheader on Monday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET, with the best-of-three finals collection taking place on March 23 (9 p.m.) and March 24 (7 p.m./9 p.m.).
Here is how we acquired to the playoffs:
2026 TGL schedule
All occasions Jap
1 | Solar., Dec. 28 | 3 p.m. | ABC | Atlanta Drive 6, New York 4 |
2 | Fri., Jan. 2 | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 | |
3 | Tues., Jan. 6 | 5 p.m. | ESPN | The Bay 4, Atlanta Drive 7 |
4 | Tues., Jan. 13 | 7 p.m. | ESPN | Jupiter Hyperlinks 3, New York 8 |
5 | Tues., Jan. 20 | 7 p.m. | ESPN | Jupiter Hyperlinks 4 vs. Los Angeles 8 |
6 | Mon., Jan. 26 | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 | Boston 9 vs. The Bay 1 |
7 | Mon., Feb. 2 | 5 p.m. | ESPN | Atlanta 6 vs. Jupiter Hyperlinks 8 |
8 | Mon., Feb. 9 | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 | The Bay 11 vs. Los Angeles 5 |
9 | Mon., Feb. 23 | 5 p.m. | ESPN | Atlanta 5 vs. Boston 2 |
10 | Mon., Feb. 23 | 9 p.m. | ESPN2 | Los Angeles 7 vs. Atlanta 3 |
11 | Tues., Feb. 24 | 5 p.m. | ESPN | New York 3 vs. The Bay 5 |
12 | Tues., Feb. 24 | 9 p.m. | ESPN | Boston 9 vs. New York 2 |
13 | Solar., Mar. 1 | 9 p.m. | ESPN | Jupiter 6 vs. Boston 7 |
14 | Mon., Mar. 2 | 7 p.m. | ESPN2 | Los Angeles 6 vs. New York 3 |
15 | Tues., Mar. 3 | 9 p.m. | ESPN | The Bay 6 vs. Jupiter 9 |
Semi 1 | Tues., Mar. 17 | 6:30 p.m. | ESPN | Atlanta vs. Los Angeles |
| Semi 2 | Tues., Mar. 17 | 9 p.m. | ESPN | Boston vs. Jupiter |
Finals 1 | Mon., Mar. 23 | 9 p.m. | ESPN2 | TBD |
TGL format
TGL matches happen throughout 15 holes and two classes. Gamers hit full-swing photographs off grass, tough or sand platforms right into a simulator display screen. Brief-game photographs beneath 50 yards and putts happen contained in the SoFi Middle on a rotating, adjustable inexperienced.
Holes Nos. 1-9 — Triples (3 vs. 3 alternate shot): Two groups of three face off with a three-man rotation hitting one shot at a time for every group. That rotation continues, so as, till the opening is accomplished.
Holes Nos. 10-15 — Singles (head-to-head play): A golfer from one group will play a gap in opposition to a golfer from the opposite group. All three gamers will play a gap, one after the other, earlier than the cycle begins once more on gap Nos. 13-15.
Additional time: 3 vs. 3 closet-to-the-pin competitors
Scoring: Every gap is value one level. Ties are value zero factors. There aren’t any carryovers.
The Hammer: Every gap in a TGL match is value one level until a group decides to throw the “hammer” (not an precise hammer), a yellow weighted flag that doubles the purpose worth of that gap. A group can both settle for the hammer and play that gap for 2 factors or deny it and concede the opening. Every group has three hammers to make use of all through the match.
Shot clock: Gamers could have 40 seconds to hit their photographs or face a one-stroke penalty.
Timeouts: Every group has 4 timeouts per match — two in Triples and two in Singles. There aren’t any carryovers from session to session.
TGL groups
Atlanta Drive GC | Billy Horschel, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Lucas Glover, Chris Gotterup |
Boston Frequent Golf | Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Hideki Matsuyama, Adam Scott, Michael Thorbjornsen |
Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership | Tiger Woods, Tom Kim, Max Homa, Kevin Kisner, Akshay Bhatia |
Los Angeles Golf Membership | Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood |
New York Golf Membership | Cameron Younger, Matt Fitzpatrick, Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler |
The Bay Golf Membership | Ludvig Åberg, Min Woo Lee, Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark |
