Three Straight Eagles: Los Angeles Routs Jupiter Links 9-2 to Sweep the Finals and Win the SoFi Cup

Three holes, three eagles, one trophy. Los Angeles Golf Club trailed Jupiter Links Golf Club 2-0 early in Finals Match 2 on Tuesday night at SoFi Center, with Tiger Woods back on the tee for the first time in more than a year. Then Los Angeles ripped off nine unanswered points, capped by Justin Rose's eagle on No. 10, and won 9-2 to sweep the best-of-three series and claim the 2026 SoFi Cup.

It is the first TGL title for Los Angeles, and it came with a flourish. It also came with a payday: Golf Monthly's breakdown of the league's prize table lists $9 million for the champions, or $2.25 million per golfer, with $4.5 million going to Jupiter as runner-up. "It feels unbelievable. What a team, what a year," Sahith Theegala said.

Tiger Tees It Up

The night began as a Woods story. A day after Los Angeles took Match 1, Woods joined Max Homa and Tom Kim in the Jupiter lineup, the first competitive swings Woods had taken in more than a year after sitting out the season as a player. Los Angeles stuck with the trio that had carried it all postseason: Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Theegala.

Los Angeles came in up 1-0 after a 6-5 win in Match 1, when Theegala won the final hole with the Hammer in play. Jupiter needed to win twice on the same night, with Match 3 scheduled for later Tuesday if necessary.

Woods looked right at home early. On No. 2, "Caverns," Woods hit a 3-wood from 279 yards that finished just short of the green, setting up a birdie, and Jupiter led 1-0 when Los Angeles made par. On the par-5 "Showtime," No. 4, Woods chipped to inside three feet and Homa tapped in for birdie. Jupiter led 2-0, and the crowd was buzzing. Woods even unleashed a signature stinger along the way.

The Turn

Los Angeles answered with its first Hammer of the night on No. 6, "Stinger." Theegala rolled in a six-foot birdie putt, the hole was worth two points, and the match was tied 2-2.

The next hole was a gut punch for Jupiter. On No. 7, "Cenote," Woods had a three-footer for par to halve the hole, and it lipped out. Los Angeles took its first lead, 3-2.

That opened the floodgates. On No. 8, "Bluebonnet," a driveable par 4, Theegala drove the green, and Fleetwood made the eagle putt for a 4-2 lead. That was eagle number one.

Three Straight Eagles

Jupiter tried to punch back on No. 9. Woods threw the Hammer before the tee shots, making the hole worth two points. When Rose's drive found a fairway bunker, it looked like Jupiter's gamble might pay off. Instead, Los Angeles recovered, and Theegala rolled in a 14-foot eagle putt. Eagle number two was worth two points, and Los Angeles carried a 6-2 lead into Singles.

The ending came fast. On No. 10, the first Singles hole, Jupiter threw the Hammer before tee shots again, needing points in a hurry. Rose smashed a drive and then hit a 5-wood inside five feet for another eagle look. Los Angeles answered with its own Hammer, pushing the value of the hole to three points. Homa missed a birdie putt that would have kept the hole alive, Rose's eagle putt was conceded, and Los Angeles had three more points.

That made it 9-2 with five holes left, and the math was over. Each team gets three Hammers per match, and Jupiter had already used two. Even winning all five remaining holes with its last Hammer on one of them would have left Jupiter at eight points, one short. The match ended on the spot, and eagle number three won the SoFi Cup.

It was a stunning swing for a match that Jupiter controlled for the first five holes. From the moment Theegala's six-footer dropped on Stinger, Los Angeles did not lose another hole, and the Hammer, which had carried Jupiter through the playoffs, backfired on it twice in a row.

By the Numbers

Los Angeles scored nine straight points over five holes, from No. 6 through No. 10: two on the Stinger Hammer, one on Cenote, one on the Bluebonnet eagle, two on the No. 9 eagle and three on the No. 10 eagle. Three consecutive eagles on Nos. 8, 9 and 10 are about as emphatic as a championship clincher gets.

The Hammer told the story. Los Angeles threw two, on No. 6 and No. 10, and won both. Jupiter threw two, on No. 9 and No. 10, and lost both, giving away five points in the process. Jupiter's only points came on the first four holes of the match.

Theegala, who began the postseason filling in for Collin Morikawa, ended it at the center of the action for the second straight night, with the birdie on No. 6, the drive on No. 8 and the eagle on No. 9. Fleetwood and Rose each made an eagle, too.

What They Said

The winners sounded like a team that knew what it had just done. Theegala said Los Angeles played its best golf of the year over the final five or six holes, and the scorecard backs that up. Fleetwood offered a more reflective take. "My thing is, trophies are great. I'm more about the moments in a way," Fleetwood said. Rose explained the calm on the bench while Jupiter led early: "We've had four pars, no drama ... we're not doing anything wrong. Just stick with it."

Jupiter did not hide its disappointment. "They steamrolled us at the end tonight," Woods said. Woods put it even more plainly in another postgame moment: "We got our (butts) kicked in the end. Three eagles in a row and we didn't respond." Woods also spoke about the return to competition itself. "It feels good to be back, but I would have liked to be back in better circumstances." Homa was even blunter. "It sucked. I'm not gonna give you a whole lot more than that," Homa said.

The Takeaway

Los Angeles was the No. 1 seed in Season 1 and went home in the semifinals. The second season did not start smoothly either. Los Angeles opened with a loss to Boston Common Golf, got Rose's albatross in an 8-4 win over Jupiter, then took an 11-5 beating from The Bay before winning its final two regular-season matches to finish 3-2-0. This year it was the No. 2 seed, rallied from 4-1 down to beat defending champion Atlanta Drive GC, won Match 1 on the final hole and then blew Jupiter away in Match 2. That is a championship run built on resilience.

Jupiter's season was a remarkable climb in its own right: a first playoff berth on a Tom Kim ace, an upset of No. 1 Boston and a Finals trip with Woods back on the tee in the finale. But Jupiter never solved Los Angeles, losing to it in Season 1, in January and twice more in the Finals. Four meetings, four Los Angeles wins. Woods' return gave the night an extra layer of meaning, and the early holes showed flashes of the old magic. The final five holes showed why Los Angeles was the better team when it counted.

For Los Angeles, the trophy finally matches the talent. Rose, Fleetwood and Theegala made sure the second season of TGL ended with the league's deepest roster holding the SoFi Cup.

Full details are on the official TGL match recap (opens in a new tab), and the PGA TOUR recap (opens in a new tab) has the hole-by-hole account.

Sources: TGL, PGA TOUR, Golf Monthly. More TGL coverage on Undrafted.

Photo: TGL.