TGL played for the first time on Monday night instead of Tuesday, and it allowed McIlroy, the No. 3 player in the world, time to get a decent night’s sleep—he lives five minutes from the SoFi Center—and then fly to the west coast for the $20 million signature event.

McIlroy said Woods was as intense as ever for their Week 4 match, the first close one so far in the indoor sim league.

Despite incurring a shot clock violation on Monday night, Tiger Woods and his team outlasted Rory McIlroy and his club in the TGL match inside a 1,500-seat indoor arena in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.