TGL, the indoor workforce golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, has introduced its full schedule. The six-team league, made up of two dozen PGA Tour gamers, will debut in early January on ESPN within the midst of the NFL playoffs, and can run weekly by way of late March.
The league will start on Tuesday nights with workforce golf competitions operating for about two hours. The matches might be performed on the SoFi Heart, a facility in Palm Seaside Gardens particularly constructed to host each the high-tech golf simulator, display screen and greens in addition to about 1,500 dwell followers, in seats and suites.
The season will embody 15 regular-season matches, a four-team playoff, and a two-team best-of-three championship. Every match might be 15 holes — 9 of workforce play, six of singles match play.
TGL’s sport play includes a mix of display screen expertise for “drives” and an precise, adjustable inexperienced for approaches and placing. TGL designers have created 30 holes, and can use 15 of them for any given match.
The six groups are aligned with numerous cities and owned by numerous homeowners and possession teams from different sports activities, just like the Mets’ Steve Cohen, the Falcons Arthur Clean, the Purple Sox’ Fenway Sports activities Group and others.
The league will start on Tuesday, Jan. 7 with New York Golf Membership (Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, and Cameron Younger) towards Bay Golf Membership (Ludvig Åberg, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, and Shane Lowry). On Jan. 14, Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership (Woods, Max Homa, Tom Kim, and Kevin Kisner) will play Los Angeles Golf Membership (Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood, and Justin Rose). Later within the season, Atlanta Drive GC (Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, and Lucas Glover) and Boston Frequent GC (McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott, and Hideki Matsuyama) will debut.
McIlroy and Woods, by way of their three way partnership TMRW Sports activities, first introduced the league in August 2022, on the most acrimonious level within the PGA Tour-LIV Golf divide. LIV Golf’s hallmark is workforce golf, and out of doors of the Ryder Cup and sure match-play occasions, there is not any substantial workforce golf part to PGA Tour golf.
TGL has a completely fleshed-out internet and social presence, together with explanatory movies and merch, designed to create immediate branding alignment primarily based on followers’ reference to each particular gamers and “host” cities. The league was scheduled to start play earlier in 2024, however a storm that broken the ability and compelled a year-long delay.
The league’s playoffs will run into late March, ending simply weeks earlier than the Masters and the beginning of golf’s main season.
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