GOLFZON Tour’s Team Tulsa defeats Team Houston in Game 6

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

The first six 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.

And in Game 6, Team Tulsa faced Team Houston in the second game of the tournament with a spot in the semifinals on the line.

format

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 all three players’ scores count. The first team to score less than the other on a hole wins.

GOLFZON Tournament Game 6 Recap: Team Tulsa vs. Team Houston

In this GOLFZON Tour quarterfinal matchup, Team Tulsa and Team Houston played each other in a bucket list spot: Kiawah Resort’s Ocean Course. Teams competed against each other in real time from their regional simulator locations.

Team Tulsa was one of four teams to earn a first-round bye during the qualifiers, while Team Houston already had a head-to-head win on their resume after defeating Team Mexico in Game 4.

It was Team Tulsa that got off to a fast start, however, winning the first three holes to go 3 up. When Team Houston finally got one back on the 5th hole, Team Tulsa answered right back with a win on the 6th.

The Houston team would not go so easily. With wins on the 7th and 9th holes, Team Houston cut Team Tulsa’s lead to 1 at the halfway mark.

But Team Tulsa’s wins on the 12th and 13th holes brought them back to within 3 with five holes remaining – a difficult deficit to overcome. Team Houston tried to rally with a win on the 15th hole, but when Team Houston’s birdie putts failed to fall on 16, Team Tulsa sealed the deal with a win to close out the match with a 3-and-2 win.

That means Team Tulsa is one of six teams still in contention for the $150,000 grand prize and will face the winner of the matchup between Team Minneapolis and Team LA in the semi-final round of the GOLFZON Tour.

The teams

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

Eastern Division

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

Western Division

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

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, so you can follow along each week to see which team ends up in the finals on January 23rd in Orlando.

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