Tiger Woods' team loses in TGL final, and it doesn't sound like he'll play in the Masters

Along with Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods was instrumental in the creation of the tech-infused TGL that capped off its second season on Tuesday night. The pair of supetstars knew it wasn’t going to be anything like traditional golf, but that was the point: to attract possible new and younger fans who would be cool with golf shots played amid spewing lava and through post-apocalyptic cityscapes. They never said the golf was going to be easy, however, and after a year of cheering from the sidelines, Woods—playing for the first time in more than a year for his Jupiter Links squad—met his own monster in the lopsided season finale.

Finding it tough to muster much rhythm while executing only nine shots total—four of which were putts—Woods made a couple of strong swings, but he also flew the green long with a wedge on a 110-yard par 3 and missed a 3½-foot putt on the seventh hole that gave Los Angeles Golf Club the spark it needed en route to a 9-2 rout that ended the match and the championship on the 10th hole. Following its 6-5 win on Monday night in Game 1, Los Angeles swept the best-of-three competition, and Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Sahith Theegala seized their first TGL title and the $9 million first prize. “Feels fine physically,” Woods said after the match.

“It was just interesting, the shots, because usually you have more of a rhythm when you're actually playing a normal round of golf, hitting shots. Here it feels like I'm getting iced a bit at times. … It's just a different rhythm.

It's like when you play Ryder Cup or Presidents Cups and you play in foursomes. Some matches you just don't hit a putt for like 10, 11 holes and all of a sudden you've got to make a three-footer. That's kind of what it feels like here.