Rory McIlroy opened about Tiger Woods’ chance to play in the TGL series. The Northern Irish golfer’s TGL team, Boston Common, has made it to the TGL playoffs.

They are going to play against Woods’ Jupiter Gold Links on March 17. Ahead of that, this week in an interview with the Palm Beach Post, the world No. 2 opened up about Woods and talked about his chance to play in the event.

“No, absolutely not. No, I don’t think so,” McIlroy said.

Tiger Woods has been recovering from disc replacement surgery, which he had in October. He has been away from the field for a while now. However, the 15-time major winner has hinted at playing the Masters, scheduled for next month.

Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy has teed it up this week on the PGA Tour at the Players Championship. He has had a decent start in the game and made the cut after 36 holes. However, he struggled with his game on Saturday and carded 72, slipping down six spots on the leaderboard and settling in a tie for 57th place.

Before this, Rory McIlroy played at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, but he withdrew from the game after playing two rounds of 72 and 68. He was tied for second place at the Genesis Invitational and tied for 14th at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

When will Rory McIlroy tee off at The Players 2026?

Rory McIlroy will tee off for the final round of the Players Championship 2026 on Sunday, March 15, at 8:35 am ET. He will start his game in a group with Nico Echavarria. Takumi Kanaya will start the game on Sunday at 7:35 am ET.

Here are the tee times for the final round of The Players Championship (all times in ET):

• 7:35 a.m. — Takumi Kanaya
• 7:40 a.m. — Ricky Castillo, Danny Walker
• 7:49 a.m. — Steven Fisk, Kristoffer Reitan
• 7:58 a.m. — Rico Hoey, Daniel Berger
• 8:07 a.m. — Tony Finau, Seamus Power
• 8:16 a.m. — Michael Brennan, Hideki Matsuyama
• 8:25 a.m. — Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth
• 8:35 a.m. — Nico Echavarria, Rory McIlroy
• 8:45 a.m. — Eric Cole, Kevin Roy
• 8:55 a.m. — Bud Cauley, Sam Stevens
• 9:10 a.m. — Nicolai Hojgaard, Chris Kirk
• 9:20 a.m. — Patrick Cantlay, J.T. Poston
• 9:30 a.m. — Andrew Putnam, Lee Hodges
• 9:40 a.m. — Taylor Moore, Alex Noren
• 9:50 a.m. — Adam Scott, Taylor Pendrith
• 10 a.m. — Zach Bauchou, Stephan Jaeger
• 10:10 a.m. — Ryan Gerard, Chad Ramey
• 10:20 a.m. — Matti Schmid, Wyndham Clark
• 10:30 a.m. — Max McGreevy, Nick Taylor
• 10:40 a.m. — Sam Burns, Max Homa
• 10:55 a.m. — Si Woo Kim, Joe Highsmith
• 11:05 a.m. — Keith Mitchell, Tommy Fleetwood
• 11:15 a.m. — Min Woo Lee, Jason Day
• 11:25 a.m. — Chris Gotterup, Akshay Bhatia
• 11:35 a.m. — Maverick McNealy, Scottie Scheffler
• 11:45 a.m. — Alex Smalley, Patrick Rodgers
• 11:55 a.m. — Keegan Bradley, Brooks Koepka
• 12:05 p.m. — Sudarshan Yellamaraju, J.J. Spaun
• 12:15 p.m. — Ryo Hisatsune, Russell Henley
• 12:25 p.m. — William Mouw, Justin Rose
• 12:40 p.m. — Jacob Bridgeman, Sepp Straka
• 12:50 p.m. — Sahith Theegala, Austin Smotherman
• 1 p.m. — Xander Schauffele, Robert MacIntyre
• 1:10 p.m. — Justin Thomas, Corey Conners
• 1:20 p.m. — Brian Harman, Viktor Hovland
• 1:30 p.m. — Cameron Young, Matt Fitzpatrick
• 1:40 p.m. — Ludvig Åberg, Michael Thorbjornsen