THE IDEA IS SIMPLE: Get some of the world’s best golfers together in a super-high-tech, one-of-a-kind arena setting, bring in fans to watch it live, have all the players mic’d up, lure a worldwide television audience to watch it all happen live, offer betting on just about everything and play an entire round of team golf in two hours.
This is TGL and come January, it will be ready for golf fans to watch.
The games will take place on Monday or Tuesday nights, in prime time, via a league composed of six different four-man teams, all played at the SoFi Center on the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida—not far from PGA National. TGL has plenty of big-name commitments from the PGA Tour: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, reigning PGA champion Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark and more.
TGL (some have said it stands for “Tomorrow’s Golf League,” but league organizers say the letters don’t officially stand for anything) is the brainchild of TMRW Sports, pronounced “tomorrow.” The company was cofounded in August 2022 by Woods, McIlroy and former NBC Sports executive Mike McCarley, who is chief executive officer. One could envision this venture as an alternative to LIV, bringing a new, fun and quick way for PGA Tour fans to enjoy the game of golf.
“There has always been a need for both team golf and something complementary to the PGA Tour that is focused on an alternative, fun, but authentic form of our sport,” Woods says. “When Mike came to me with the basic concept of TGL, it was obvious to me that the format, the way we harness and mix technology with actual golf, and how we embrace new ways to engage our core audience while attracting those new to the game, TGL is going to be successful.”
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