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Course Preview: Key Holes for Playoff Semifinals
March 14, 2025
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Birdies and bogies, eagles and Top 10s, loose banter and electric competition – the regular season of TGL presented by SoFi had a bit of everything.

Now the field is set and it's time to find out which of the four postseason teams will go down as the first to ever hoist the SoFi Cup in the league’s inaugural season. The Semifinals tee off at 7 p.m. ET Monday with No. 1-seeded Los Angeles Golf Club pitted against No. 4-seeded New York Golf Club on ESPN2.

The second Semifinal matchup is slotted for 7 p.m. ET Tuesday with No. 2-seeded The Bay Golf Club facing No. 3-seeded Atlanta Drive GC on ESPN.

The two Semifinal winners will meet in a best-of-three Finals Series March 24-25 at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Here’s a look at the Semifinals course layout.

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Match 1: New York Golf Club vs. LAGC

Both Semifinal matches will feature the same course layout, ensuring an even playing field for the first round of the playoffs.

Almost all of the holes have been used frequently throughout the season and players should have their strategy dialed in well before the Shot Clock starts to tick down.

These teams also have history – Los Angeles scored a wild 5-4 Overtime comeback win over New York in February and several key holes from that match will be in play again during the first Semifinal match.

Cameron Young picked up a point for New York in Singles at the par-5 Spear, which will play as the second hole Monday night. No. 3, the par-3 Set in Stone, saw Collin Morikawa hit his tee shot inside six feet for a birdie to tie the match and send it to Overtime.

New York also won points in Triples at holes No. 7-8, the par-3 Oh Chute and the par-4 Bluebonnet.

Sahith Theegala had the putt of the night for Los Angeles at On the Rocks, a par-3 playing as No. 14 Monday night. Theegla drained a nearly 30-foot birdie putt in Singles to spark the Los Angeles rally.

New York will likely have an advantage on the greens as the putters have been lights out in the second half of the season. NYGC made a TGL-record 129 combined feet of putts in the first match against Los Angeles. NYGC also ranks first in the league in combined feet of putts made, while LAGC ranks fourth.

Los Angeles, however, has had superior irons play. LAGC finished the regular season third in strokes gained ball striking.

Los Angeles is a co-favorite to win the whole thing, listed alongside The Bay with +220 odds at FanDuel to take the SoFi Cup. New York currently has the longest odds at +320.

Match 2: Atlanta Drive GC vs. The Bay Golf Club

We’ve got another rematch on deck in the second Semifinal – The Bay came out on top in a back-and-forth match, winning 6-5 in last month’s TGL tripleheader at SoFi Center.

Points were scored on four of the holes included in Tuesday’s layout and Justin Thomas should be especially fired up for some of the early Triples action.

Thomas picked up two points for his team after hitting his tee shot inside eight feet at the par-3 Set in Stone and draining the birdie putt. Set in Stone will play as the third hole in Triples.

Thomas also made a 13-foot birdie putt worth two points in Triples at the par-3 Oh Chute, which will play as the seventh hole Tuesday night.

The Bay earned points on the final two holes in the Semifinal layout – making birdie at No. 14, On the Rocks, and No. 15 Sterling, a par-5 that should serve as a thrilling finishing hole in Singles.

While The Bay lost out on the No. 1 seed in the final match of the regular season, there’s a reason the team is still co-favored to hoist the SoFi Cup. The Bay started the year 4-0 and finished tops in the league in a ton of statistical categories – driving distance, fairways hit, birdies or better, strokes gained total and strokes gained around the green, among others.

Atlanta should still come in with plenty of confidence having finished first in TGL in strokes gained putting. Atlanta also won the most Singles points of any team (18).

Some of the more favorable holes for Atlanta include the par-5 seventh, Quick Draw, where Atlanta was 2-0-2, and Sterling, where the team went 3-1 in the regular season.

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