Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler have officially set the four-man teams their forthcoming golf exhibition, the Golf Channel Games, which is slated for Wednesday, Dec. 17 at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter in South Florida. Each squad will feature a good friend to the de facto captain, a familiar face from Bethpage Black and somewhat of a wildcard selection.<\/p>\n
McIlroy’s team consists of Shane Lowry, Haotong Li and European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald. Scheffler will trot out a lineup that includes Sam Burns, Luke Clanton and U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley.<\/p>\n
There will be five formats that competitors will need to traverse through at Trump National Jupiter. The first is a timed drive competition where players compete head-to-head with two minutes on the clock, launching drives onto a scoring grid.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the short-game competition (chipping and putting), players will compete individually and chip the ball within a certain distance of the pin and hole a specific number of feet of putts all within the three minutes set on the clock.<\/p>\n
Next, players will compete in a 14-club challenge with two competitors facing off. The teams of two will pull clubs from the same golf bag and strike shots from predetermined distances in the fairway during a closest-to-the-pin contest. Once a club is used, it is eliminated, meaning each player will strike seven different shots with all 14 clubs used.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All eight players in the competition will compete across four head-to-head matchups.<\/p>\n
Team strategy will be involved in the next format, as a timed shootout features four-player alternate shot across three holes. Teammates will be staged in certain positions — one on the tee, one in the fairway, two on and around the greens — and whichever side finishes with the best score in the shortest amount of time wins.<\/p>\n
Finally, McIlroy and Scheffler will go head-to-head in a captain’s challenge. Each player will strike shots from various distances, a bunker, greenside and putts of 30 feet and 10 feet. Whoever has the lowest combined distance from the hole for the shots will win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler have officially set the four-man teams their forthcoming golf exhibition, the Golf Channel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-276056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}