Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of TGL’s opening night—despite the robot green, basketball-inspired shot clock and “Hammer”—was the fact league’s two superstar founders, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy,

The Bay GC claimed the first match of the inaugural TGL season, a 9-2 win over New York GC, with Shane Lowry, Ludvig Åberg and Wyndham Clark playing like they were in a major. Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick and Rickie Fowler, meanwhile, played like they were hitting into a simulator.