Xander Schauffele scored two factors throughout singles play and fourth-seeded New York Golf Membership pulled away for a 6-4 upset victory over top-seeded Los Angeles Golf Membership within the first match of the TGL playoffs on Monday night time in Palm Seaside Gardens, Fla.
New York superior to subsequent week’s best-of-three championship sequence, the place it can face the winner between The Bay Golf Membership and Atlanta Drive GC.
After an evenly performed first seven holes, New York received the eighth gap when Schauffele knocked in a birdie putt from 4 toes arrange by Cameron Younger’s strategy. He proceeded to defeat LAGC’s Collin Morikawa on the par-5 tenth and the par-4 thirteenth, whereas Rickie Fowler beat Tommy Fleetwood of England for one more New York level on the par-4 eleventh.
In each of the singles holes that Schauffele received, he “threw the hammer” mid-hole seeking to double the purpose worth of the opening — the latter when he hit his strategy on the thirteenth 30 toes nearer to the pin than Morikawa did. In each instances, LAGC declined the hammer and conceded a single level.
New York was the final group to squeak into the league’s inaugural playoff discipline.
“I believe you take a look at how we began out, you understand, it was a poor begin,” Schauffele mentioned. “I used to be watching from house (resulting from damage). The boys began rallying. (England’s Matt Fitzgerald) was with us as we speak … I believe we’re all fairly glad. We thought it was potential, however we knew it was gonna be an extended street. We’re positively glad to be right here.”
Fleetwood had an opportunity to win the 14th gap towards Fowler and hold LAGC alive, however his 5-footer to win lipped out.
It was LAGC’s first time dropping in regulation all 12 months. Its solely lack of the common season got here in time beyond regulation.
“I believe we performed actually properly and we had our possibilities,” LAGC’s Sahith Theegala mentioned, “however only one or two putts that very simply might have gone in simply lipped out for us, and that was type of the deciding issue.”
–Area Degree Media