Another week, another fun night at SoFi Center. On Tuesday, it was Tiger Woods’ debut as his Jupiter Links Golf Club team took on Los Angeles Golf Club in the second week of the league.

As much anticipation as there was last week for the debut match between New York Golf Club and The Bay Golf Club, there was as much or more this week for the 15-time major champion.

Woods’ entrance was a terrific moment, too, as he walked into the arena to Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” and raised his hands over his head as he stepped onto the turf.

“That … song that he walked out to gave me chills,” said LAGC’s Sahith Theegala. “I didn't think it would, but it really gave me chills.”

Unfortunately for Woods’ JLGC team, it was one of few highlights on the night.

LAGC handed them their first defeat of the season, a 12-1 loss that was never close. LAGC won three of the first four holes – two of them with a Hammer played, resulting in two points each – and led 5-0 after the first four holes. From there, they coasted.

But the two squads battled across all 15 holes (remember, total holes won is a tiebreaker in the SoFi Cup Standings at the end of the year) and ended with a humorous moment out of a greenside bunker.

Here are my takeaways from Tiger Woods’ SoFi Center debut.

1. Tiger had a blast

I have watched Tiger Woods play a lot of golf over the years. I don’t think I have ever seen him have as much fun playing golf as he did on Tuesday.

Some of that was because he was clearly fired up to be playing for the first time in the league he helped create. Part of it was because he seemed to love mixing it up with both his teammates as well as LAGC. And part of it was on account of Kevin Kisner blading a bunker shot off the flagstick on the second to last hole of the night.

"That was one of the funniest moments I've ever seen, Kiz hitting that shot like that," Woods said. "We were just dying. The chip shot, the next one should have gone in. That would have been just like the most all-world 3, and it was just one of those weird nights.”

2. Hammer strategy

There was a moment on the second hole when LAGC had the Hammer and was clearly going to win the hole. It seemed as if they should throw the Hammer and try to steal a bonus point out of it.

However, Collin Morikawa explained after the hole that JLGC would have simply declined and conceded the hole, and it would have resulted in the same outcome (one point for LAGC) as it did anyway. By not using the Hammer, LAGC retained control of it for a more strategic moment, which they employed on the next hole and got two points, which was smart.

The other thing that has become clear about the Hammer is that any team that gets up big early tends to hoard it as the match progresses to not give an opportunity to the losing team to make a comeback. This is smart, but I’m excited for close matches when there are real Hammer stakes late in the festivities.

3. Jupiter looking to learn

When interviewed on ESPN, Keegan Bradley – who plays for Boston Common Golf – said SoFi Center is an environment where players find themselves out of their normal element on tour. That was clear with these two teams making their debuts (and especially JLGC) on Tuesday.

“It's just a weird sensation to stand there and you've got 100 yards or one time I had 55 yards, and it's that enormous screen you're looking at, and it's just different,” said Woods. “We can learn and hopefully in a couple weeks not hit the ball into so many penalty areas and play better.”

4. LAGC can contend

It’s difficult to project because JLGC had a tough night, but this LAGC team has the look of a squad that could contend for the title in Year 1. It has the second-lowest average OWGR of any team in the league (behind only Boston), and all three players looked terrific. Throw Tommy Fleetwood into the mix, and LAGC is going to be a force throughout this season.

5. Star of the night

Following Ludvig Åberg as the Week 1 star, Theegala gets the honors this week.

His underrated short game was on display, and he hit the ball better than anyone in the match. There is also, like Åberg, an intangible star quality to Theegala. He brings a mixture of self-awareness and swagger into an event and swings it like he’s there to win on every shot.

Case in point: Long after the match was in hand, Theegala reached the 729-yard closing hole, Quick Draw, in two shots, hitting his second to 10 feet after taking the shortcut across the canyon on his drive. He was absolutely locked in until the very end when Homa conceded the eagle putt to him to put a bow on a final score of 12-1.

Kyle Porter wrote close to 3 million words about golf over 12 years for CBS Sports and covered 47 majors and five Ryder Cups in the process. He has written three books – Normal Sport 1, 2 and 3 – and built a newsletter of 15,000 golf fans at normalsport.com.