Rory McIlroy Loved What He Saw From Tiger Woods in Their First TGL Showdown – Sports Illustrated
On Monday night, Rory McIlroy’s Boston Common Golf took on Tiger Woods’s Jupiter Links Golf Club for the fourth TGL match of the year. In what was the league’s first competitive match, Woods’s team took down McIlroy’s in overtime. After the match ended, McIlroy commented on the intensity he saw from Woods throughout the night. “It’s amazing to go up and compete against one of your heroes. I’ve shared the course with him many times, and I’ve been in a couple of final groups with him, and he has just as much intensity out there tonight as he does when he’s trying to win a major championship or trying to finish off a golf tournament,” McIlroy said. “He was feeling it out there, and it was really cool to see.”The first three matches were not close, but one filled with drama and clutch shots might be exactly what the league needed in order to get back on track. Last week, Rickie Fowler’s New York Golf Club took on Justin Thomas’s Atlanta Drive Golf Club and it was TGL’s third consecutive blowout with Atlanta winning 4-0. The ratings fell by more than 30% from Tiger Woods’s debut in Week 2.Next week, McIlroy and Boston Common Golf take on Los Angeles Golf Club. L.A. defeated Jupiter 12-1 two weeks ago. Matt Vincenzi is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, covering golf. Before joining SI in October 2024, he worked as a golf writer for GolfWRX and the Action Network. He is a graduate of Bridgewater State University and has been covering professional golf for five years.
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