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Atlanta won both matches in the best-of-3 TGL
finals that wrapped up the first season of the high-tech indoor
league at the SoFi Center.
New York led the entire match and was up 3-2 on the 14th hole
when Horschel delivered the biggest shot of the night. Atlanta
threw a “hammer” challenge that New York accepted, making the
penultimate hole worth two points. Rickie Fowler was in a
bunker.
Fowler splashed out to 4 feet. Horschel faced a putt down a
sharp ridge that broke two ways, and it turned back to the left
and into the cup as Horschel raced off the green, threw his
putter and his hat and screamed, “My (expletive) house!”
“Two feet out I knew it was in the hole, and I blacked out,”
Horschel said.
New York threw a hammer challenge on the final hole making it
worth two points. Cameron Young and Cantlay each missed the
green on the par 5. Cantlay's pitch from 60 feet checked up and
stopped a foot from the hole. Young had to make to force another
match, and his pitch narrowly slid by the hole.
The Atlanta Drive won $9 million to share among Horschel,
Cantlay, Justin Thomas and Lucas Glover, who was inactive for
the three-man match.
New York received $4.5 million for Young, Fowler, Xander
Schauffele and Matt Fitzpatrick.
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