GOLFZON Tour’s Team Detroit defeats Team New York in Game 7

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What started as a 12-team golf simulator competition for a $150,000 grand prize is now a five-team battle to the finish.

The first seven matches have been completed on the GOLFZON Tour – a new league in which regional teams of five players from each of 12 selected GOLFZON host facilities (nine are in the US, the others are from London, Toronto and Mexico) compete against each other – to the other. in a series of games, with one team winning the grand prize.

Team Orlando defeated Team Louisville in match 1, while Team Minneapolis defeated Team Chicago in match 2. Team London fell to Team New York in Game 3AND Team Houston defeated Team Mexico in Game 4. Game 5 featured another international battle, pitting Team Canada against Team Orlando in the first leg of the quarterfinals. Team Orlando won in a sudden-death playoff to advance to the semifinal round. In the 6th game, Team Tulsa defeated Team Houston to become the second team to reach the semi-finals.

With the third semifinal spot up for grabs, Team New York faced Team Detroit.

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Single-elimination bracket play is currently underway. Teams of three compete head-to-head by linking their simulators together online in a match format, with two of the three best player scores for each team counting on each hole. Female competitors play 85 percent of the court of their male counterparts.

If, after 18 holes, there is a tie, the match goes into a sudden death playoff, where the scores of all three players count. The first team to score less than the other on a hole wins.

GOLFZON Tournament Match 7 Recap: Team New York vs Team Detroit

In this GOLFZON Tour quarterfinal matchup, Team New York and Team Detroit played each other in a bucket list spot: Spyglass Hilla longtime host of the PGA Tour’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and widely recognized as one of the toughest courses in the world. Teams competed against each other in real time from their regional simulator locations.

Team Detroit was one of four teams to earn a first-round bye during the qualifiers, while Team New York already had a head-to-head win on their resume after defeating Team London in Game 3.

The Detroit team got on the board first with a win on the second hole. New York fought back with a win on the 4th to bring the match back to square one, with Team Detroit claiming the 5th hole to go back to 1 up.

The up-and-down pattern continued, with New York claiming the 6th hole, Detroit winning the 7th and New York winning the 8th. At this point, it looked like the match would be like many others in this GOLFZON Tour series, going down to the wire or maybe even extra holes.

But then… Team Detroit took control, winning an astonishing six straight holes to close out the match at the 14th hole with a 6-and-4 victory. It’s the largest margin of victory yet, and a performance that makes Team Detroit one to watch as we approach the Finals.

With the win, Team Detroit is one of five teams still in contention for the $150,000 grand prize and will next face Team Orlando in the semi-final round of the GOLFZON Tour.

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The teams

The 12 teams competing in this edition of the GOLFZON Tour are:

Eastern Division

Detroit – Tee Times – IN THE SEMI-FINALS
London – Golf Rooms – ELIMINATED (match 3)
Louisville – Tee It Up Golf USA – ELIMINATED (match 1)
New York City – Golfzone Social – ELIMINATED (match 7)
Orlando – Leadbetter golf – IN THE SEMI-FINALS
Toronto – Play golf – ELIMINATED (match 5)

Western Division

Chicago – Green – ELIMINATED (game 2)
Houston – The Daly Round – ELIMINATED (match 6)
los angeles – Golf Envy – IN THE QUARTERFINALS
Mexico – Mulligan’s Monterrey – ELIMINATED (match 4)
Minneapolis – The element of indoor golf – IN THE QUARTERFINALS
Tulsa – BirdieBay – IN THE SEMI-FINALS

Follow the action

You can watch the matches in full at GOLFZON’s YouTube pagewhere new episodes and match recaps will be released every week. The tournament is currently in the middle of the single-elimination quarterfinal rounds with one game remaining before the semifinals begin, so you can follow along each week to see which team ends up in the finals in Orlando.

To learn more about the GOLFZON Tour – and follow the progress of the match brackets – click here.