Season 2 action returns Monday night, with Boston Common Golf taking on The Bay Golf Club at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN 2.

Boston was victorious in its season opener after finishing winless in Season 1, while The Bay dropped its first match after finishing with the No. 2 seed in 2025. Those results should serve as a reminder that this is a brand new year and four postseason spots are up for grabs.

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Boston can put itself in great position in the SoFi Cup Standings with a win, while The Bay can't afford to fall into an early 0-2-0 hole.

LINEUPS

Boston Common Golf: Rory McIlroy, Michael Thorbjornsen, Keegan Bradley

The Bay Golf Club: Shane Lowry, Min Woo Lee, Wyndham Clark

PLAYING ORDER REVEAL

Here's the order in which players will tee off for their teams:

TRIPLES

SINGLES

3 THINGS TO KNOW

Friendly Foes: Singles at SoFi Center is always a high-stakes game. Monday’s matchup between McIlroy and Lowry is on another level. Their friendship goes back more than 20 years, formed during junior golf days in Ireland and shared through countless ups and downs as Ryder Cup teammates and life moments off the course. Now they’re going head-to-head in TGL for the first time in a showdown with bragging rights on the line. This is one pairing you don’t want to miss.

Dynamite Debut: Boston alternate Michael Thorbjornsen is back in the lineup after putting the rest of the league on notice in his first TGL appearance. The 24-year-old set a new record by holing four putts from outside 10 feet and secured the Ballfrogs’ first-ever victory with an eagle at the 15th. He’s currently second in average driving distance at 331.4 yards a pop and hit 100% of fairways in Boston’s 7-5 win over Los Angeles Golf Club. Let’s see what Thorbjornsen has in store for an encore.

Ready to Rebound: There were plenty of positives for The Bay in their opening loss to Atlanta. They got out to an early lead through five holes, finished +1 in Hammer points differential and made everything from inside 10 feet. But they didn’t give themselves many chances at birdie, hitting just 40% of fairways and 60% of greens in regulation. The Bay finished first in TGL in both categories last season, so turning things around Monday starts with getting back to what they do best.

SINGLES MATCHUPS

Rory McIlroy vs. Shane Lowry: McIlroy is 4-4-4 all-time in Singles while Lowry is 2-7-3. They begin at No. 10, Pick Yer Plunder, where a bold tee shot into the middle island fairway sets up an eagle opportunity. They finish at Temple, another risk-reward hole that demands a strong tee shot. McIlroy has the advantage on paper given his prowess with the driver, but Lowry will definitely have a little extra in the tank given his opponent.

Michael Thorbjornsen vs. Min Woo Lee: Can you say stripe show? These two youngsters are both prolific ballstrikers and get to show off at the 11th, Stinger, where Thorbjornsen navigated the overhanging rock with a terrific 3-iron earlier this month. Then it’s on to the par-3 14th, Set in Stone, where Lee is dangerous even from off the green given his knack for chip-ins throughout Season 1.

Keegan Bradley vs. Wyndham Clark: They’ll first take on the new par-3 12th, The Last Toll, a visually spectacular par-3 that asks players to shape something through or around a dilapidated bridge tower. Triples concludes at the par-5 Quick Draw, where Clark will definitely be looking to reach the green in two.

THE COURSE

There’s no such thing as a handshake opener in TGL – No. 1, Straight Up, brings water into play right out of the gate on the opening tee shot. No. 2, Bonnie Link, is a 581-yard par 4 shaped like an hourglass with penalty area surrounding the fairway.

Boston’s Team Hole, Storrowed, plays as the fourth. The 627-yard par-5 features a snaking fairway and water guarding the front of the green amid a classic northeast landscape. It also saw some serious drama in Boston’s opener, with Los Angeles’ Sahith Theegala holing out from 66 feet for eagle. Los Angeles then threw the Hammer and Boston accepted, with Thorbjornsen drilling his 10-foot eagle make to save two points.

Triples wraps up at Bay Breaker, The Bay’s par-5 Team Hole that has a rather generous fairway but a dicey approach into an island green. The Bay picked up a point here in its first match with a Hammer throw that Atlanta declined.

No. 11, Stinger, is back for the sixth consecutive match, and some have clearly been doing their homework – Akshay Bhatia and Collin Morikawa both stayed clear of the overhanging rock and reached the fairway last week, the first time two players have done so in the same match.

The Last Toll is also back in the lineup after its debut last week, playing as the 12th, while the match concludes, fittingly, at the par-5 Quick Draw – the same hole on which Clark made eagle last year to secure the winning point in a 5-4 victory over Boston to conclude a back-and-forth tilt.

HOLE SPOTLIGHT

No. 6, Cut the Sails, 378 yards

No. 6, Cut the Sails, is a brand new Gil Hanse design on which players can take on a large fairway bunker to catch the steeper part of the downward fairway slope and set up a potential eagle putt. But anything too far right is in the water and tee shots to the left of the bunker won’t get as much rollout toward the green.

Shaped like a nautical sail, the dramatic fairway slope brings Alpine to mind and ups the ante on this potentially-driveable par 4.