Tiger Woods and Rory Mcilroy delivered the best Night of TGL and could have found the formula for long -term success in the process.
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Now this is more like that.
A week after TGL collided at a conclusion in which Patrick Cantlay placed “Hammerin” under blocking and Key, Golf League The most anticipated night arrived while Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Links Golf Club got to Rory Mcilroy’s Golf Golf Golf.
As expected, the stars surrendered the most fun and competitive match so far, showing what may be the league when all the necessary parts are lined up. Well, more or less.
But we will get there.
Did TGL find its formula?
During the first three weeks, TGL appeared captured between the two countries. He could not decide whether he wanted to be just an improper blow or a competition with actions that should matter to the public he watches. Anyone who wins the Sophie Cup does not need to matter, but if it is in ESPN, there must be an element of serious competition.
The two explosions in the first two weeks did not help, but TGL seemed lost while trying to be both sports and fun. The problem was that placards and entertainment that TGL would not materialize without competitive aspect. Think of it as a game of taking with your old college friends or a beer tour with the back yard. It is all fun and games until competing juices start, starting trash conversation and we are out.
On Monday, Woods and Mcilroy teams held a competitive match – an overtime win for Jupiter Links – who saw a ton of herd tights, Tom Kim Ham Him for the crowd and a formula for success appears.
TGL needs its stars. No doubt.
Golf currently lacks needle movers outside Woods, Mcilroy and some others not on TGL lists. So when TGL has Woods or Mcilroy playing, it should use as much as possible from those matches.
It also has to embrace the pleasant nature of the simulator golf arena (more lava gelatin holes may be needed) while showing that the best players in the world care regarding the result of the match.
These people are all hyper-competitive, and if you get them to buy and take care of the shooting, then the public that looks just can.
On Monday evening, Woods was grinding over an 8 -legged bird blow to tie Mcilroy in the same way he would make a key lying on Sunday on a major. That sounds absurd, and it is, but Woods wanted to defeat Mcilroy. He was grinding so hard over the putt he received Labeled with the first hour violation In the history of TGL.
Earlier in the match, Mcilroy made Woods come a 4-foot, which prompted a “are you kidding me?” Look from the tiger.
That’s good things!
Add to some excellent comments from Kevin Kisner, an overload of antiques from Kim, a nearest fire exchange to the pin, and some big strokes that caused sincere celebrations from Mcilroy, Adam Scott, Woods, and you, and you You have a fun product.
One’s own purpose
Unfortunately, TGL could not completely capitalize in its first competitive match due to a serious forced error.
When both teams arrived in the nearest liver filming, they were forced to solve the order in which they would hit their shots.
The easy answer would be for Woods and Mcilroy to hit the second. This would ensure that they both hit the overtime and make it so that the two stars could hit the biggest shooting of OT, with one having the opportunity to win the match and one that has the opportunity to extend .
Instead, they had Woods and Mcilroy to hit the third, and, as expected, they never took the opportunity to swing the club as Kim and Kisner won the first two holes for Jupiter to end the match.
This cannot happen.
If you are going to get the Rory-Tiger match to go to OT, you need to make sure they are hit in a fire exchange.
For a championship trying to capture viewers and attention, you can’t miss the kind of opportunity when it presents yourself.
This was the only pubon on a great night for TGL, but it is a visible noise.
Technology
The technology was turned off during the first TGL match of Woods, but it seemed better last week when the Atlanta Drive defeated New York Golf Club. TGL was tied to the yard for the Tee boxes on shorter shots, and seemed to solve what was a great issue on the second night.
However, there were still some technology problems, including Green high -tech TGL.
Both problems appeared During a strange ruling In the fifth PAR-3 hole when Kisner hit his goal on the slope at the back of the green. Physics would dictate that Kisner’s ball would roll again from the slope. On the contrary, the ball gripped on the side of the slope, which made Kisner claim Jupiter was “work” from “nine feet”.
Another issue appeared when they reached green and tried to put Kisner’s ball in the place where the imitator had stopped him. However, they could not take the ball to stop in that place, forcing them to put the ball in another position that was no longer close to the hole. Green’s Green has been a biggest issue in the first four weeks. The players have routinely run places 5 to 7 meters from the hole, and the inability to place a ball in the country brings to question the green severity.
Technology issues seem as if tgl things should be able to iron as they go. But it is essential that technology does not make players look bad or attract criticism from them as Kisner did on Monday.
Lane
Matt Barrie and Marty Smith loan to put them there and attempt to find the best way to transmit a unique product.
There have been some major losses early, but it is fair to expect increased pain from everyone during the first days of a start. Smith’s question about European captain of Ryder Cup Luke Donald last week about what Matt Fitzpatrick can get from TGL to the Ryder Cup was absurd but harmless.
Transmission should focus on two things to be as successful as possible.
They have to talk about the current strategy of the holes – whether they have lava or not – and get opinions from the players on how they are looking to attack the holes and why. They did it more on Monday, especially with Keegan Bradley and Kim.
They also need to bend in more of the parts of the mic’d-up from when the cameras are out.
Come on, Tiger telling his mother that he would not “suck” this time was funny. As was Rory falling out of the “demographic” Abba in Tiger.
Players like Kisner, Kim, Max Homa, Billy Horschel and Justin Thomas will offer entertainment moments, but filling them with those Mic’d-up moments from pre-distribution or during the holidays is valuable to the product.
After three weeks of mixed reviews, TGL got the night it needed on Monday and got a big jump forward.
There was energy, excitement, drama and fun. There was countless shot of the hammer. Woods spiked a golf ball celebrating a blow made to tie a hole. Tom Kim was shaking his face. There was a strange decision of Tio and David Ortiz falling a f-bomb.
It was a dreaming night for TGL. The only question is: Can they point the formula and make it recurrent?
If so, the leagues could simply find the attitude of power and mcilroy power predicted when they began the effort.
Golfit.com editor
Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for golf. com before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break the 90 and will never lose confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end. Josh can be reached in josh.schrock@golf.com.
