Boston Common Golf will get back on the horse this week as the Ballfrogs try to recover from a thrilling 4-3 overtime loss to Jupiter Links Golf Club last week.

As far as top-ranked talent goes, this week’s matchup is difficult to beat. These two teams have the best average OWGR of any two teams in the league, and it is not unreasonable to view this as a potential championship preview. Though the Ballfrogs sport an 0-0-1 record to date, they will run back out three of the better players in the world right now in Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and Keegan Bradley. McIlroy is fresh off his 27th PGA TOUR win having taken the title at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am over the weekend.

LAGC will counter with Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood, who will be making his SoFi Center debut. Let’s take a look at a few stories to watch when these two teams square off at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday evening on ESPN.

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Approach play key

LAGC only hit seven of 15 greens in regulation in its first matchup against Jupiter, but they were bailed out by both the Hammer and the fact that JLGC had a difficult night.

Boston Common Golf actually probably played better against Jupiter than LAGC did but still took a loss. If both teams play similar to the way they did in their first matchups, I expect the Ballfrogs to come through.

Must win for Ballfrogs?

Speaking of the Ballfrogs winning this week! It sounds silly to call this a must win for Boston, but with only five matches for each team throughout the season and the Ballfrogs already 0-0-1, it does feel like a key matchup.

After a disappointing loss to Tiger Woods’ JLGC team last week, McIlroy’s squad needs to bounce back with a win to feel good about heading into the rest of the season.

Early course strategy

I’m intrigued by the second hole this week – Pick Yer Plunder – for a few reasons.

It’s the hole that has seen the most penalties (four) of any thus far this season. We have also seen that teams that take an early lead often take control. I think this hole is going to be pivotal early in this week’s match.

No Theegala for LAGC

Sahith Theegala was key to LAGC's big win over Jupiter Links last time out. He brought loads of energy and played very well. I don’t know that Theegala is necessarily LAGC’s best overall player (Morikawa is ranked No. 4 on the OWGR, while Theegala is No. 19), but Theegala might be its most important player. I’m curious to see how this team does without him on Tuesday night.

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Porter’s Picks

For the second consecutive week, I’m picking the Ballfrogs to get it done. They were very competitive in the loss to Jupiter and LAGC mostly got the job done with putting in their first outing. That’s a bit concerning going into their second match as it may not be entirely sustainable. If they hit it better, they should be close, but I think the Ballfrogs squeak out a 6-4 victory.

As for individual matchups, this is how I see them playing out.

Rory McIlroy vs. Tommy Fleetwood: A Ryder Cup teammates matchup! This one should be great, but I lean McIlroy just because he’s had more reps in SoFi Center than Fleetwood and he's coming off the win at Pebble Beach. McIlroy is also, unsurprisingly, incredible off the tee in this format.

Adam Scott vs. Collin Morikawa: I’ll take Scott here, although I suspect this will be the best of the three matchups. These are two of the prettiest swingers of a golf club of the last 20 years, and I could honestly watch them play 18 holes against each other.

Keegan Bradley vs. Justin Rose: Rose was unbelievable in his first match. He made four of LAGC’s six putts that were not conceded, including two from 10 feet or more. Bradley wasn’t quite as good as that for Boston against JLGC last week. This will be a great matchup as well, but I’ll take Rose to rise up to the challenge again.

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.