They never said the golf was going to be easy, however, and after a year of cheering from the sidelines, Woods \u2013 playing for the first time in more than a year for his Jupiter Links squad \u2013 met his own monster in the lopsided season finale.<\/p>\n
Finding it tough to muster much rhythm while executing only nine shots total \u2013 four of which were putts \u2013 Woods made a couple of strong swings, but he also flew the green long with a wedge on a 110-yard par 3 and missed a 3\u00bd-foot putt on the seventh hole that gave Los Angeles Golf Club the spark it needed en route to a 9-2 rout that ended the match and the championship on the 10th hole.<\/p>\n
Following its 6-5 win on Monday night in Game 1, Los Angeles swept the best-of-three competition, and Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Sahith Theegala seized their first TGL title and the $US9 million first prize.<\/p>\n
\u201cFeels fine physically,\u201d Woods said after the match. \u201cIt was just interesting, the shots, because usually you have more of a rhythm when you\u2019re actually playing a normal round of golf, hitting shots. Here it feels like I\u2019m getting iced a bit at times. \u2026 It\u2019s just a different rhythm. It\u2019s like when you play Ryder Cup or Presidents Cups and you play in foursomes. Some matches you just don\u2019t hit a putt for, like, 10, 11 holes and all of a sudden you\u2019ve got to make a three-footer. That\u2019s kind of what it feels like here.<\/p>\n
Tiger \ud83e\udd1d Stinger pic.twitter.com\/8bQYJ6Pq6k<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TGL (@TGL) March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it was different because I haven\u2019t really done this. I\u2019ve been watching these guys do it. They make it look easy. I haven\u2019t done it in a while. It was a lot of fun, though, to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n The announcement late on Monday night that Woods, 50, would play on the second night created some buzz for the return of the 15-time major winner who last played on the PGA Tour in the 2024 British Open. Woods\u2019 only other brush with competition came when he and son Charlie finished second in the 2024 PNC Championship, and in the one match he played last March in TGL.<\/p>\n Since then, Woods underwent surgery on his Achilles last March and had L4-L5 disc replacement surgery last October.<\/p>\n In replacing teammate Kevin Kisner so that he could play alongside Tom Kim and Max Homa, Woods seemed genuinely excited to taste the battle. Before the action, he told ESPN\u2019s Scott Van Pelt, \u201cI love to compete. I really do.\u201d He also said, \u201cIt\u2019s just one step at a time. Tonight, it\u2019s a nice step.\u201d<\/p>\n Much to the chagrin of his fans, however, Woods didn\u2019t make it sound like this was a strong stride towards playing in the Masters in less than two weeks. In the post-match interview, Woods, a five-time Masters champion, said he has been trying to prepare for competition, but \u2026<\/p>\n \u201cJust this body, it doesn\u2019t recover like it did when it was 24, 25. It doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m not trying. I\u2019ve been trying for a while. I\u2019ve had a couple bad injuries here over the past years that I\u2019ve had to fight through and it\u2019s taken some time. \u2026 I want to play. I love the tournament. I\u2019ve loved being there [in Augusta] since I was 19 years old. It\u2019s meant a lot to me and my family over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n LA captured the @SoFi<\/a> Cup, highlights from tonight’s Final match here \u2b07\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/B6V7goxfgj<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TGL (@TGL) March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Rose said the night was going to be special as soon as it was announced that Woods would be playing. He said sharing the floor with a \u201clegend\u201d was \u201cawesome.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe does bring so much to it,\u201d the Englishman said. \u201cI was just looking at it curious \u2026 yeah, it would be great to see where he\u2019s at. He looked impressive. I don\u2019t think he hit a bad shot. The only bad shot he hit was not a bad shot; it was just too good a shot almost with a wedge that went too far. But his fairway woods \u2013 everything looked great.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously the putting, missed a short one \u2013 that\u2019s the bit that kind of shows if you haven\u2019t been competing, so that can hopefully change for him in the not-too-distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n [Adam Glanzman\/TGL]<\/p>\n Winning the season title was a blast for the three from the LA team of two Englishmen and a young man in Theegala who is a native Southern Californian and grew up east of the city in Chino Hills. Rose has won the US Open, Fleetwood captured this past season\u2019s FedEx Cup, and Theegala has one tour victory and is battling back well this season after an injury derailed him in 2025.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 @WeAreLAGC<\/a> didn’t leave any room for debate.<\/p>\n Congratulations to our 2026 champs. pic.twitter.com\/9wMkoYu04V<\/a><\/p>\n![\"2268214494\"\/](\"https:\/\/golfdigest.sports.sndimg.com\/content\/dam\/images\/golfdigest\/fullset\/2026\/3\/tgl-los-angeles-golf-club.jpeg.rend.hgtvcom.966.644.suffix\/1774405084177.jpeg\")
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