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Summarize this content to 100 words: Jupiter Links has won a golf match. Yes, you read that correctly.
Only 371 days after Tiger Woods’ troops picked up their first victory at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., No. 2 is on the board.
With Tiger acting as a roving captain of sorts, his squad of Max Homa, Kevin Kisner and Akshay Bhatia took down the defending-champion and undefeated Atlanta Drive 8-6 on Monday.
As if screen golf and its fantastical holes weren’t otherworldly enough.
The victory even prompted the 15-time major champion to bring out an old Tiger-ism.
“We kept the ‘mo’ on our side,” he told ESPN’s Marty Smith after the match, using his patented shorthand for momentum. “We had a great time today. We were getting our butt kicked early and were down two and then all of a sudden made a run.”
It was only natural, given the unlikeliness of the match, that Jupiter took control with Akshay Bhatia’s tee shot on the par-3 The Last Toll, perhaps the most apocalyptic offering on the TGL hole rotation.
Bhatia flighted a perfect five-iron over an abandoned bridge and nearly dunked it for a hole-in-one, only for it to settle four feet from the pin.
Jupiter kept the pressure on with a hammer throw, which Atlanta declined, giving the Links a 5-2 lead.
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It marked Jupiter’s fifth straight hole won — another sign that things were upside down, considering the Florida squad had never before won so many as three straight.
The run began on the par-3 third hole Cenote, when Kisner redeemed himself from a week prior, reaching the funnel overlooking the hole after coming up short prior and watching it drop to 13 feet. Jupiter won with a two-putt after Billy Horschel hit his tee shot into the water.
Kisner joked that he was spurred on by Tiger.
“Well, Tiger pretty much told me he’s kicking me off the team if I didn’t get my act together. So a few text messages that are not made public, without those, I wouldn’t have got motivated. So all credit to him,” Kisner told Smith.
Points on the board seemed to get Jupiter rolling downhill.
On the fourth, Kisner hit an approach from a bunker shot to five feet, setting Bhatia up for the winning birdie putt. On the fifth hole, it was Homa launching an eight-iron on a par-3 to four feet for another birdie. And on the sixth, Bhatia hit a silky-smooth pitch shot over a bunker to four feet for yet another birdie.
By the end of the team alternate shot, Jupiter led 5-2, marking its first-ever nine-hole lead.
The five points also represented a single-game record for Jupiter, which through one-and-a-half seasons of TGL, had become the league’s punching bag.
“We’ve had obviously a terrible run, but we knew we had the boys to do it, we just had to kinda get on a roll. And that was not the roll I thought we were gonna get on — that was a lot better. It was just fun,” Homa said.
In the early going, it seemed things were headed down Jupiter’s usual path yet again as Atlanta’s Horschel, Lucas Glover and Chris Gotterup raced to a 2-0 lead through two holes. Gotterup set the TGL record with a 374-yard drive on the second.
But the good vibes ended there for Atlanta, which saw its seven-match winning streak dating back to last season halted. Jupiter snapped a five-match losing streak.
Jupiter won the first hole in singles with Bhatia taking down Gotterup and sealed the win when Kisner beat Horschel on the two-point 12th hole.
Horschel got a measure of revenge on the final hole, when both teams threw the hammer, resulting in it being worth three points. The Drive star hit a nine-foot birdie putt to make the final score appear closer than it really was.
Bhatia summed up Jupiter’s night concisely.
“Obviously,” he said, “winning for the first time is the best feeling ever.”
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Justin Thomas returns
Golf fans got their first glimpse of the two-time major champion Thomas in 2026.
After undergoing back surgery late last year, the Atlanta Drive member has yet to play on the PGA Tour this season amid a slow recovery process. He played the Woods role for Atlanta on Monday, keeping the hammer in his back pocket and walking around the stadium with his crew without hitting a shot.
Thomas has said he is targeting a return during the Florida swing of the season, which begins Feb. 26 at the Cognizant Classic and runs through the Valspar Championship ending March 22.
The timeline puts his TGL season in doubt, with the regular season wrapping March 3 and the championship series set for March 23-24.
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Atlanta gets WTGL team
The first TGL-champion franchise is growing.
Atlanta will welcome a WTGL team when the league begins after the LPGA Tour season next winter, TMRW Sports announced during Monday’s match.
Headed by Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, potential members of the Atlanta women’s team could include Canada’s Brooke Henderson, world No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul, Lexi Thompson (who was in the house) and four others who have already committed to the league.
The WTGL will follow a similar format to TGL, including a regular season and playoffs, and will likewise take place at the SoFi Center.
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