The Tomorrow’s Golf League (TGL), the brand new indoor golf league, is reaching the end of its inaugural season, and the playoff seedings have been set for the six team league.

The top four teams to make the playoffs are as follows:

1 – Los Angeles Golf Club vs. 4 – New York Golf Club (Monday, March 17th, 7pm EST)

2 – The Bay Golf Club vs. 3 – Atlanta Drive Golf Club (Tuesday, March 18th, 7pm EST)

For the first season of the TGL, the league has been a success. Ratings have been higher for the TGL than other golf league’s regular ratings, but there was one aspect of the first season which left many golf fans wondering what is going on?

That would be the captains of the two teams who did not make the playoffs this season. None other than Tiger Woods, captain of the Jupiter Golf Club, and Rory McIlroy of the Boston Common Golf.

That’s right, the two players, Tiger and Rory, who have put their names proudly on the TGL as their product, failed to make the playoffs in the league’s first year in existence. And, if I’m being honest, it wasn’t even close. Here are the regular season standings for the TGL:

1 – Los Angeles Golf Club – 9 points
2 – The Bay Golf Club – 8 points
3 – Atlanta Drive Golf Club – 8 points
4 – New York Golf Club – 5 points
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5 – Jupiter Links Golf Club – 2 points
6 – Boston Common Golf – 1 point

When you look at the statistics for the 2024-2025 season, it was ugly for Tiger and Rory’s respective teams. Jupiter only won one match, and 10 holes in total. Boston Common didn’t win a single match, and only won 16 total holes in the 5 match regular season. Jupiter’s lone win in the regular season? You guessed it, it was against Rory’s Boston Common team, and it went to extra holes.

I’m not about to bemoan the league for not having Rory or Tiger in the playoffs, they absolutely didn’t play well enough as a team to get into the postseason, but it certainly does feel like the league is missing something without the two headliners of the league watching from home in just over a week rather than competing.

The TGL will have to make some decisions before the second season at to SoFi Center. The teams should remain, but bigger rosters, and potential trades/drafts would absolutely help make the teams, and thereby the league, stronger moving forward. Meanwhile, the golf world will have to prepare themselves for a playoffs without their two biggest names involved.

Will the ratings be high for the postseason with a Collin Morikawa vs. Rickie Fowler and Ludvig Aberg vs. Justin Thomas playoff set up? I can’t speak for you, the reader, but I will absolutely be glued in for these matches. The TGL might not be perfect, but it is a perfect answer for the golf fan who wants to watch something during the week, and in the winter, when that golf itch needs to be scratched.

Jeff Hartman is the host of the Fairways & Dreams podcast, and you can hear the latest Two-Man Scramble podcast talking about golf and fitness in the player below: