What a difference a year makes.<\/p>\n
After going the entirety of the first season of TGL without a victory, Boston Common Golf is now 2-0 after an utterly dominant performance against The Bay Golf Club.<\/p>\n
And they\u2019re showing no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n
Boston Common remains undefeated on the season after a 9-1 drumming of The Bay Monday night, with Michael Thorbjornsen \u2014 who is once again playing as a fill-in for Boston \u2014 picking up where he left off in his season opener and the star of the show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m just having a lot of fun,\u201d Thorbjornsen said. \u201cNot really thinking too much about whether a hole is worth two points or if we need to make it or whatnot. I’m reading the putt the best that I can, trying to put good speed on it, and if it goes in, it goes in; if it doesn’t, it doesn’t. I’m just trying to have fun out here and play some good golf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boston Common, after two early-season victories, now sits first overall in TGL after finishing last in season one. Boston Common has spectacularly outscored its opponents 16-6 already this season and, without question, has become TGL\u2019s top squad.<\/p>\n
Boston Common notched the first point of the night before it was quickly tie through two \u2013 with The Bay getting a point right back. It was all Boston for the balance of the evening, however, with the team leading 5-1 heading into singles.<\/p>\n
Thorbjornsen, who is from Massachusetts, nailed a 14-foot birdie on No. 7 to give Boston Common a 4-1 lead. With the hammer on play on the next hole, Thorbjornsen then made a six-footer to tie the hole and avoid a two-point swing.<\/p>\n
After winning the opening hole, Boston Common essentially played mistake-free golf the rest of the way. Rory McIlroy, who played back-to-back weeks in Dubai on the DP World Tour and likely just got back to south Florida on Sunday, helped push the Boston Common squad to the winner\u2019s circle after defeating good friend Shane Lowry in singles on Nos. 10 and 13.<\/p>\n
Both McIlroy and Lowry played across the world, but somehow McIlroy was able to get over the jet lag faster. It actually, McIlroy explained, wasn\u2019t too hard compared to his good friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have his own plane,\u201d McIlroy said with a laugh.<\/p>\n
Boston Common outscored The Bay by an incredible 8-0 margin over the final 11 holes of the match.<\/p>\n
It was a tough night from the jump for The Bay, as Shane Lowry ended up yelling, \u2018Fore!\u2019 off the tee on the first \u2013 after missing his drive well right. Min Woo Lee \u2013 who was making his season two debut \u2013 hit his approach shot on the first hole into the water for a penalty, and although it was the first hole of the night, that was, essentially, that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t great, was it?\u201d Lowry said. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t play very well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Considering how poorly Boston Common played through the opening season, this is quite the turnaround. And, according to Keegan Bradley, the product of some serious learning year-over-year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was really having trouble. The ball was overdrawing in here for me last year, and this year it’s been a lot better. But getting in and doing the work, learning the holes — it’s very rare you can go play a practice round and hit the exact shots and know where the pins are and know exactly where this putt breaks, getting in here and putting in that effort to win,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cIt means a lot to me to play for a Boston team. It was my dream as a kid to do that, and I’m 39 years old now; I’m getting to fulfill a dream I had as a kid. This truly means a lot to me to represent this city, this region that we’re from.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Last year) was brutal. We want to go there and win the whole thing this year, and we’re off to a good start.<\/p>\n
The 9-1 triumph by Boston Common marks the largest margin of victory in the second season of TGL, and the squad has its young star-in-waiting to thank.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael has been an amazing addition to the team, has sort of taken to this style of golf really, really easily, much easier than Keegan and I did last year,\u201d McIlroy said with a smile. \u201cBut I think with a little more experience from us, we’re getting more comfortable in here, too, and it’s showed over the first two matches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a difference a year makes. After going the entirety of the first season of TGL without a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-435754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}