Never has the old golf adage “if you’re going to play bad, play fast” been taken to heart more than in TGL’s second foray onto the big stage. Tiger Woods emerged through red haze with the most spot-on musical introduction imaginable, immediately dropped the hammer, then embarked on some of the worst team golf ever to appear on national television. He combined with Max Homa and Kevin Kisner to firehose shot after shot into penalty areas and resemble something one might see at their local muni when weekend duffers grit their teeth and grind to break 100.
It was Kisner, though, who put a bold new twist on that phrase, channeling Aaron Judge-like power from the bunker with a shot that threatened to snap what may have been the only flagstick on hand. It was pure comedy, sending Woods into tears of laughter and further lightening the mood as the Los Angeles GC dotted I’s and crossed T’s in what has become the please-let’s-retain-eyeballs portion of the league’s sales pitch in back-to-back weeks. Kisner, who flashed a golf game that's perfect for a TV tower, followed his flagstick-rattler by almost chipping in for a miraculous save—one which the broadcast joked would have been among the greatest shots in golf history.
