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In a blink, Los Angeles Golf Club turned Match 2 of the Finals from a duel to a demolition.
Down 2-0 through five holes, LAGC ignited a five-hole win streak that put an exclamation mark on an excellent season. An eagle-eagle-eagle sprint to the finish buried a fiery Jupiter Links team, a stunning and rapid conclusion to the second postseason of TGL presented by SoFi.
Here are the key numbers behind Los Angeles Golf Club’s championship-winning run.
HAMMER MEETS NAIL
Entering Singles of Match 1, Jupiter Links held a 3-2 lead, a precarious spot for LAGC considering how dominant its opponent had been in Singles in recent matches.
From that point in the match, there were six Hammers thrown combined by both teams. Los Angeles won five of those holes and tied the other, adding up to a preposterous point differential of plus-10.
In Match 2 of the Finals alone, Los Angeles earned seven points off three holes where the Hammer was used. For context, teams scored seven or more total points in a match just 34% of the time this season.
The Hammer wasn’t overly friendly to LAGC during the regular season. In those five regular season matches, Los Angeles had a point differential of -4 in Hammer situations, the second-worst number of any club (New York GC, -7). The enormous reversal of Hammer outcomes for LAGC contributed significantly to its win.
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SAHITH STEPS UP
The LAGC lineup of Collin Morikawa, Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose has been arguably the most dominant trio across both TGL seasons. And why wouldn’t they be – at times this season, those three men made up three of the top five players in the Official World Golf Ranking.
In three TGL matches played, that group is a perfect 3-0-0, averaging 6.3 points won per match and leading for more than 90% of holes played.
Collin's shoes weren’t easy ones to fill for Sahith Theegala, who was penciled in to replace Morikawa in the lineup after Collin suffered a back injury at THE PLAYERS Championship.
Theegala struggled at times in the first two matches of the postseason but made some of the biggest shots in LAGC’s season with the SoFi Cup on the line.
On the final hole in Match 1 of the Finals, Theegala hit a perfect drive and excellent approach shot, setting up a two-putt birdie and the win for LAGC. Then, the following night, he nailed a putt when his back was nearly completely facing the hole, good for two points and a commanding 6-2 lead that LAGC would not relinquish.
All-time, Theegala, Rose and Fleetwood are 3-0-1 together and have actually averaged more points per match (6.5 pts per match) than the Morikawa-Rose-Fleetwood trio.
SCREENZONE SAVANTS
Almost every way you slice it, Los Angeles Golf Club was the most consistently impressive team into the screen in 2026. No team gained more strokes on the competition with its shots into the screen this season than Los Angeles GC (+29.9).
Between tee shots and approaches, LAGC had 50 shots this season that gained 0.3 strokes or more on the competition – the most of any team. As a group, they hit 21 approach shots inside ten feet, five more than any other team.
Rose, Fleetwood and Morikawa finished the season ranked second, third and fourth among TGL players in strokes gained ball striking. Only Max Homa of Jupiter Links (+13.5) gained more strokes than those three in the ScreenZone in the 2026 Season.
EARLY RISERS
Since TGL began, teams to take the first lead in the match have gone on to win more than 65% of the time. While LAGC trailed at some point in all three of its postseason wins, jumping out to an early advantage was a hallmark of its success. On holes 1 through 3 of matches, LAGC led all teams in holes won (eight) and points won (nine).
LAGC won at least two Triples holes in every match it played this season. It all added up to a league-best 27 Triples holes won and 31 Triples points won.
A FITTING FINISH
LAGC’s SoFi Cup-clinching hole came on ‘The Spear,’ where Justin Rose hit two brilliant shots to set up a short eagle opportunity. It felt appropriate considering how well the team played on par 5s in the playoffs: an 8-3-3 hole record, five hit greens in two and a dozen points on the board. Los Angeles actually won more par 5 holes in the playoffs than it did in the regular season – in its five regular season matches, LAGC had a record of 7-10-8 on par 5s.
After eagles at hole 8 and 9, Rose’s short eagle putt was conceded to clinch the SoFi Cup. Had Rose holed the short putt, it would have been the first instance in TGL history of a team making three consecutive eagles with none of them coming via concession.