TGL Match 13 preview: McIlroy, Woods square off as playoff race heats up

The TGL season is coming down to the wire, with three matches in three days set to determine the structure of the playoffs — and who will have the chance to win the SoFi Cup.

Sunday night marks the most anticipated match of the regular season, with the Tiger Woods-led Jupiter Links GC facing off against the Rory McIlroy-led Boston Common Golf.

Woods, who remains injured and will not play but will be part of the match regardless, sends out his most impressive lineup of the season with multi-time PGA Tour winner Tom Kim making his season debut.

McIlroy, meanwhile, is hoping his Boston squad can complete the most impressive of turnarounds and go from worst (in Season 1) to first.

Here’s everything else you need to know about Sunday’s match — the first of three days in a row of TGL action.

The match

Boston Common Golf: Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley (sitting: Adam Scott)

Jupiter Links GC: Max Homa, Akshay Bhatia, Tom Kim (sitting: Tiger Woods, Kevin Kisner)

Notes

• Boston Common will clinch the No. 1 seed heading into the playoffs with a win against Jupiter Links OR an overtime loss.

• Boston is on a busy late-season run, as it will play its third match in seven days Sunday night. Its match against Jupiter comes after a 5-2 loss to Atlanta Drive Monday but an impressive 9-2 victory over New York Golf Club the next night.

• With a win over Jupiter, Boston will complete a tidy turnaround from 0-4-1 (and last place) last season to 4-1-0 and the top seed heading into the playoffs.

• In Season 1, Jupiter defeated Boston 4-3 in the first TGL match to ever go into overtime.

• Tom Kim will make his season debut for Jupiter. Kim has had a steady if unspectacular start to his 2026 season on the PGA Tour. He’s made all five cuts but has just one finish higher than a tie for 35th.

• Jupiter broke a five-match losing streak in its last outing, defeating Atlanta Drive GC 8-6.

• Jupiter is also the only team with two matches remaining. It will need to win at least one to keep its playoff hopes alive.

League standings

Playoff picture

Boston and the defending champion Atlanta Drive have already clinched playoff spots.

There are plenty of scenarios still in play over the final three matches, but here are four for Sunday night:

• If Jupiter wins both its matches against Boston (Sunday) and The Bay (Tuesday), it will clinch a playoff spot.

• If Jupiter beats Boston but loses to The Bay, it needs New York to beat Los Angeles (Monday) in regulation to force a tiebreaker (holes won).

• If Jupiter loses to Boston but beats The Bay, it will likely face a tiebreaker scenario to clinch a spot in the playoffs.

• Jupiter is eliminated if it loses to both Boston and The Bay unless both losses are in overtime.

Broadcast details

Match begins: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on Sportsnet and Sportsnet+

All matches will be played at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., with the capacity for 1,500 fans in seating that’s wrapped around the playing area – creating a ‘greenside’ experience.

How it works

• Triples – nine holes – three players per team competing in an alternate-shot format.

• Singles – six holes – one-on-one, head-to-head competition for the entire hole. Each player from each team plays a total of two full holes during the session.

• Overtime – if the match is tied after 15 holes, the teams will play a best-of-three, closest-to-the-pin competition to decide the winner, with the hole location and orientation of the green remaining unchanged from the final/15th hole of the match.

• The shot distance in OT will be between 25-50 yards and decided pre-match by the match official. All players will play from the same spot. The ball must finish on the putting surface to be eligible.

Standings

For each match, teams can be awarded up to two points towards their regular-season total based on the following:

• Win in regulation = 2 points

• Win in overtime = 2 points

• Loss in overtime = 1 point

• Loss in regulation = 0 points

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