Season 1 is in the books. If you missed it, what happened!? To get you ready for Season 2, we’ve broken down the basics of the TGL format so you can be ready to cheer on your favorite team.

What’s The Match Format?

TGL teams play 15 holes of golf each match, divided into two sessions: 9 holes of Triples (3 vs. 3 alternate shot) and 6 holes of Singles (head-to-head play).

Two teams made up of three players each tee off at SoFi Center and start with Triples. From there, they complete the match by playing Singles.

Modern match play is the scoring system. What does that mean? Well, each hole is worth 1 point and the team with the fewest shots on a hole wins the point. The team with the most points at the end of the night wins the match.

If the match is tied after 15 holes, we go to Overtime, which is a best-of-three, closest-to-the-pin competition between the two teams.

Triples: How It Works

Let's give you an example.

Say Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and Keegan Bradley are playing for Boston Common Golf against Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Billy Horschel on Atlanta Drive.

On hole 1 of Triples, Rory tees off for Boston and JT tees off for Atlanta. Then, Scott takes the next shot for Boston, Cantlay does the same for Atlanta and so on, until the hole is complete.

That's Triples, 3 vs. 3 alternate shot.

Singles: How It Works

What about Singles?

The 10th hole begins with head-to-head play as Rory representing Boston plays JT on Atlanta. They play the entire hole and the winner (fewest shots) earns the point for their team.

The next hole, Scott faces Cantlay. And then Bradley vs. Horschel. The cycle begins again for holes 13, 14 and 15, so in total 6 holes of Singles are played.

Regular Season

So what happens when one team wins the match? That winning team gets two points added to their tally in the SoFi Cup Standings. The losing team gets 0 points, unless they lost in Overtime, in which case they'd get 1 point.

In our example, let's say Boston Common Golf wins the match in regulation and is awarded two points to its regular season total in the SoFi Cup Standings. Atlanta Drive gets 0 points.

Each team plays five regular season matches in total, racking up points as they go and jostling for position in the standings to make the playoffs.

Playoffs

Once all regular season matches are played, the top four teams in the SoFi Cup Standings advance to the playoffs. The playoffs begin with single-elimination Semifinals and conclude with a “best-of-three” Finals Series.

Atlanta Drive won the inaugural season of TGL, beating New York Golf Club 2-0 to take home the SoFi Cup in the first ever best-of-three Finals Series in March 2025.

SoFi Center is located on the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It is where all the TGL matches take place.

It is a nearly 250,000-square-foot venue that accommodates approximately 1,500 people on TGL match nights.

Field of play: The field of play within SoFi Center is infused with various technologies and covers an area approximately 97 by 50 yards, roughly the size of a football field.

Tee Shots and Approach: Players hit from tee boxes with real grass, fairway, rough, and sand on tee shots and approach shots into a 64 x 53 ft screen powered by Full Swing technology. The screen is roughly 24 times the size of a standard simulator.

Short-game and putting: For shots of approximately 50 yards or less, depending on green setup and hole locations, the players transition to a custom-built complex referred to as the “GreenZone” that is larger than four basketball courts and features the largest-ever adaptable putting surface built by Full Swing. The 3,818 square-foot tech-infused green sits on a 41-yard-wide turntable that rotates, while the green itself features nearly 600 actuators embedded under the putting surface to change the slope of the green, creating a variety of play on every hole.

The Teams

• TGL Season 2 consists of six teams with four players on each team (24 total PGA TOUR players). Only three players per team will compete on match night.
• In advance of each match, the two competing teams will name three competitors.
• All players will be mic'd up during the competition.

Let's take a look at the six teams and their rosters:

• Atlanta Drive GC: Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, Lucas Glover
• Boston Common Golf: Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama
• Jupiter Links Golf Club: Tiger Woods, Max Homa, Tom Kim, Kevin Kisner
• Los Angeles Golf Club: Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose
• New York Golf Club: Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Cameron Young
• The Bay Golf Club: Ludvig Åberg, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, Shane Lowry

Not sure who to root for? Take this quiz to Find Your Team.

Ahead of Season 3, TGL will introduce a seventh team: Motor City Golf Club.