TGL schedule 2026: Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s squads set to face off in playoff semifinals

TGL’s second season saw the simulator golf league take more strides forward with some fresh faces joining the familiar stars from the inaugural campaign at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. 

After 15 matches of regular season play, the 2026 TGL Playoffs are now set for March 17, with the two biggest stars of the league seeing their teams make the playoffs for the first time. 

After a disappointing winless 2025, Rory McIlroy’s Boston Common squad came out on a mission and earned the 1-seed in the TGL Playoffs with a 4-1 record. Their first round opponent will be Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Links squad, which capped off their regular season with a thrilling victory over The Bay to secure the 4-seed — thanks largely to a clutch hole-in-one from Tom Kim on the penultimate hole of the match. 

On the opposite side of the bracket are the defending SoFi Cup champions, as the Atlanta Drive earned the 3-seed but recently got star Justin Thomas back in play. They’ll face the star-studded 2-seed Los Angeles Golf Club, which boasts three of the top five players in the world rankings currently — Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose and Collin Morikawa. 

Those semifinal matches will take place in a doubleheader on Monday, March 17 at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET, with the best-of-three finals series happening on March 23 (9 p.m.) and March 24 (7 p.m./9 p.m.). 

Here’s how we got to the playoffs:  

2026 TGL schedule

All times Eastern

TGL format

TGL matches take place across 15 holes and two sessions. Players hit full-swing shots off grass, rough or sand platforms into a simulator screen. Short-game shots under 50 yards and putts take place inside the SoFi Center on a rotating, adjustable green.

Holes Nos. 1-9 — Triples (3 vs. 3 alternate shot): Two teams of three face off with a three-man rotation hitting one shot at a time for each team. That rotation continues, in order, until the hole is completed.

Holes Nos. 10-15 — Singles (head-to-head play): A golfer from one team will play a hole against a golfer from the other team. All three players will play a hole, one by one, before the cycle begins again on hole Nos. 13-15.

Overtime: 3 vs. 3 closet-to-the-pin competition

Scoring: Each hole is worth one point. Ties are worth zero points. There are no carryovers.

The Hammer: Each hole in a TGL match is worth one point unless a team decides to throw the “hammer” (not an actual hammer), a yellow weighted flag that doubles the point value of that hole. A team can either accept the hammer and play that hole for two points or deny it and concede the hole. Each team has three hammers to use throughout the match.

Shot clock: Players will have 40 seconds to hit their shots or face a one-stroke penalty.

Timeouts: Each team has four timeouts per match — two in Triples and two in Singles. There are no carryovers from session to session.

TGL teams