The City of Champions added another team to its list of winners when Los Angeles Golf Club defeated Jupiter Links Golf Club to win the league championship in the second season of TGL at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Los Angeles, which won Game 1 of the best-of-three series 6-5 on Monday, defeated the Jupiter Lynx 9-2 on Tuesday to clinch the season-long crown.
After fielding a lineup of Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner in the first game, the Jupiter Lynx turned their attention to team captain Tiger Woods in the second game. Woods played competitive golf for the first time in months. Aiming to make a comeback towards the 2026 Masters.
Tiger couldn’t muster any magic in his season debut. His only notable moment turned out to be a missed putt from 3 feet, 6 inches that spurred Los Angeles’ rally to the title.
“We got our butts kicked at the end. … We didn’t respond,” Woods said. “We missed a short shot to give them some momentum in the beginning and we couldn’t get it back.”
Los Angeles, on the other hand, kept the same lineup throughout both games, featuring Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose and Saheth Segala. The trio started the battle with four consecutive pars, but found themselves trailing by two points midway through.
Rose praised Fleetwood for keeping his team calm during their early deficit and letting them know they had done nothing wrong up until that point. From there, LAGC did just about everything right.
On the sixth hole (Stinger), Fleetwood and Woods hit the fairway with their drivers. After Rose pulled the wedge back to 6 feet 6 inches, Los Angeles opted for a hammer throw. Homa was unable to react, leaving the possibility that Seagala could tie the score in an instant.
From there, the momentum continued to snowball. Woods’ short miss clinched the seventh, giving Los Angeles its first lead of the game. It widened on the next hole when Segala’s drive on the short par-4 8th set up Fleetwood for an eagle look from 11 feet.
Los Angeles went from 0-2 to 4-2 in the blink of an eye and kept the pedal to the metal on the final hole of the triple. Los Angeles, forced out of position off the tee by Fleetwood’s wayward drive, were forced to accept a hammer from Jupiter, which was good for them.
Homa hit a 3-iron from 14 feet from 230 yards to give Jupiter an eagle chance, while Rose responded with a 6-iron from a fairway bunker to about the same distance. With the first putt, Kim missed a chance to apply pressure, but Segala left the green with a 6-2 lead heading into singles.
With two hammers still in his pocket, Jupiter took an aggressive route on the first hole of the singles and dropped it on the teeing ground, leaving Los Angeles with no choice but to accept. Rose and Homa faced off on the par-5 10th hole, with Rose hitting the fairway and gaining the upper hand.
The Englishman then hit a 5-wood from 255 yards to just short of 5 feet, but Homa’s 3-wood settled for 14 feet. This time Los Angeles beat the hammer, and with Homa’s birdie, the eagle, three points, and ultimately the championship all went to another winning team representing the City of Angels.
