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Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers know a factor or two about profitable NFL video games on clutch performs inside the ultimate 2 minutes, and the pair of future Professional Soccer of Famers proved that once more Wednesday by translating their distinctive potential to measurement victory in make-or-break conditions to the golf course. Rodgers sunk a walk-off 15-foot putt on the twelfth and remaining gap of The Match to ship him and Brady to a win over Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes on the Wynn Golf Membership in Las Vegas.

“I felt actually good about [the putt], to be sincere,” Rodgers stated. “Tommy gave me a terrific learn. I heard Trevor [Immelman] and Charles [Barkley] in my head telling me I used to be going to make it, and I felt good concerning the line after I hit it, I knew it was getting in. It was a enjoyable day.”

Rodgers ended the spherical as he started it on the primary with that clutch birdie putt. Brady’s earlier strive on the twelfth skirted previous the opening however solely after Allen practically sunk what would have been an astoundingly spectacular 80-footer. Additionally on the road for Allen’s putt was a suggestion from Barkley to leap right into a lake surrounding the inexperienced, however the ball settled inches proper of the opening, maintaining the Chuckster dry for the remainder of the night.

Brady and Rodgers took an early 2 UP lead by way of the primary couple holes, however Allen and Mahomes went on a run from there with the Chiefs quarterback doing the heavy lifting. Mahomes hit some world-class iron pictures and even bought the ball to again up on a few of his approaches, which was a bit eye-opening. As soon as he began downing beers on the third gap, his driver straightened out a bit as effectively because of the imbibed “swing juice,” as broadcaster J.J. Watt known as it.

Mahomes and Allen received the third gap to drag inside one, and neither staff led by a couple of the remainder of the best way. The putter was the magic membership for Mahomes all through. He poured (and walked) them in from all around the yard as his squad tied Brady and Rodgers on the fifth. He made so many putts that I believed Jordan Spieth’s 2015 season was going to take off a Mahomes costume and reveal itself. The Allen-Mahomes staff wanted them, too, as a result of Allen wasn’t bringing as a lot to the desk as was marketed.

The children stored surging and went forward on the eighth gap, however Brady, who was erratic all day — even hitting a cold shank at one point — lastly contributed one thing when he tied retied the match with a clutch putt of his personal on the tenth to set the desk for Rodgers on the final.

Immelman known as out how effectively Rodgers had been placing it all through the day — he additionally hit it effectively early on — simply because the Packers star stepped as much as his final putt and walked it in with a monstrous fist pump earlier than it even bought near the cup.

As a lot enjoyable because the early components of the occasion had been — Brady dropped an F-bomb on the primary tee and Allen used golf balls with Brady’s notorious NFL Mix photograph on them — it bought a bit tense down the stretch as 4 ultra-competitive dudes went after the win.

“Issues bought fairly critical, and we buckled down a little bit bit,” Rodgers stated. “These two had been enjoying fairly good, and we did not wish to come out of right here with an L.”

Wednesday marked the sixth iteration of The Match general however the first that didn’t embrace any skilled golfers. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau have all been prominently concerned, as have Peyton Manning, Rodgers and Brady over the previous few years. Mahomes and Allen had been new to the occasion, however they actually entertained and introduced a ton of followers out with Chiefs Kingdom and Payments Mafia each well-represented.

This model of the occasion proved that whereas having professional golfers concerned actually brings extra high quality to the present, so long as factor run comparatively shortly, there’s loads of good banter, the golf is no less than above common (which it was) and the printed is humorous and lighthearted, this enterprise can work for so long as they wish to maintain displaying it.

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