GOLFZON Tour’s Team Los Angeles defeats Team Tulsa in Match 10

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

Ten matches have now 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. the other in a series of games, with one team winning the grand prize.

Missed the first round and quarterfinal action? Here’s a quick summary:

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, and in Game 7, The Detroit team was victorious over the New York team. The last team to grab a semifinal spot was Los Angeles, when they defeated Team Minneapolis in Game 8.

And in the first semi-final match of the tournament, Team Detroit defeated Team Orlando to punch their ticket to the tournament final.

format

In this single-elimination bracket play tournament, teams of three players compete head-to-head by linking their simulators together online in a match format, with two of the three best 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 all three players’ scores count. The first team to score less than the other on a hole wins.

GOLFZON Tournament Match 10 Recap: Team Los Angeles vs. Team Tulsa

GOLFZON Tour semi-final matches are played at an iconic venue: Pebble Beach Golf Linksan annual host of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on the PGA Tour and site of multiple US Open championships. Teams competed against each other in real time from their regional simulator locations.

The Los Angeles team got on the board first, winning three of the first four holes, but Team Tulsa came back with a victory on the 5th hole to cut the deficit back to 2. However, a win by the Los Angeles team on the 6th hole, brought LA’s lead back to 3 up.

On the iconic par-3 7th, Team Tulsa rolled in a clutch birdie to win the hole and get back to 2 under. Ties on the 8th and 9th holes meant Team Los Angeles entered the second half of the match with a 2-up lead.

Team Tulsa won the 10th hole to get back to 1 down, but Team Los Angeles came right back with a win at 12 to get back to 2 up. A birdie on the 13th for the Los Angeles team turned out to be a big moment. At that point, LA had a 3-up lead with just five holes to play — not an entirely insurmountable deficit for Tulsa, but a tough challenge for a team that had yet to lead the match.

When the teams reached the 16th, Tulsa faced a must-win situation. They made a valiant effort with two birdies, but Team LA matched them, securing a 3-and-2 victory.

With the win, Team Los Angeles is now one of only two teams still in contention for the $150,000 grand prize and will face Team Detroit in the 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 FINAL
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 – ELIMINATED (match 9)
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 FINAL
Mexico – Mulligan’s Monterrey – ELIMINATED (match 4)
Minneapolis – The element of indoor golf – ELIMINATED (match 8)
Tulsa – BirdieBay – ELIMINATED (match 10)

Follow the action

You can watch the matches in full at GOLFZON’s YouTube pagewhere new episodes and match recaps are released every week. The final match will be played this week in Orlando.

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