The Match

Country

United States

How it feels

This series shows professional golfers and other athletes competing in head to head match play events. The competitions include side bets and other sports entertainment elements to keep things fun.

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What happens

The Match is a series of exhibition match play golf challenge matches that began in 2018. The event features major professional golfers or other notable athletes facing each other in a head-to-head competition. The format has varied throughout the run of the event; in all of the events, sports entertainment elements were included, particularly with the inclusion of sports betting elements in that the contestants wager portions of their prize on side bets during the contest. Most years since 2020, two iterations of The Match have been held each year, alternating between contests involving professional golfers (usually in November or December, outside the PGA Tour season) and contests involving celebrity athletes from other sports, with or without golf professionals; one of the two contests is traditionally held on the weekend before or after Thanksgiving. TNT Sports (formerly Turner Sports) has televised all iterations of the event through 2024, with the offseason contests airing as part of TNT's holiday seasonal programming. In 2025, the producers opted to produce a different competition, the Golf Channel Games, for Golf Channel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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