Atlanta Comes Out on Top in TGL Finals

“Walking away when the ball was about two feet, knowing it was going in,” Horschel said, explaining his reaction to the putt. “I don't remember throwing the putter down, and I remember saying it was my effin' house, that was it.”

Atlanta had been ice cold all night, with the putter from 10 -20 feet going 0-6 until Horschel’s dagger and the first made putt from any difference gave Atlanta its first lead of the night.

The early part of the match was pedestrian, with neither team earning a point until the seventh hole when New York broke the ice when Atlanta conceded the first point of the match.

A one-point lead quickly became two points when Atlanta refused a hammer thrown by New York, and New York would finish off the nine-hole Triples session with a two-point lead.

The lead grew to three points in the first singles match between New York’s Xander Schauffele and Thomas when the two-time PGA Champion could not get up and down from a greenside bunker.

After pars on the 11^th, the Atlanta comeback would commence.

The odds for Atlanta to prevail standing on the 12^th tee was nine percent and nothing that had happened over the first 11 holes would have changed anyone’s mind that the odds should be long for a Atlanta victory.

In the next four holes, the hammer would be thrown four times, Atlanta would throw it down on the next three holes, and New York would throw it down in a desperate measure on the last.

Atlanta would win six points in those four holes, which was unsurprising since they had won 21 points when they had thrown the hammer this season, ranking them first in the TGL.

“That moment was awesome,” Horschel said of the putt on the 14^th hole. “Walking off the green, Rickie goes to me, he's like, that was like the '07 Walker Cup. We played together in the foursomes matches, and there was a couple moments that I was pretty boisterous, and one of them was on Sunday I hit a great bunker shot 30 yards away, and it was looking like it was going out, and I came out like a gazelle running down the hill thinking it was going to go in and yelling and everything.”