TGL, the innovative indoor golf league spearheaded by golfing legends Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, is set to debut Tuesday night. The league, designed to attract a younger audience, features a virtual format and a 1,500-capacity stadium.
After years of anticipation, the high-tech indoor golf league spearheaded by two of the sport’s modern greats is finally ready to tee off Tuesday night. Led by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, TGL will begin at their custom-built Florida venue, the SoFi Center, and will be broadcast on ESPN having initially meant to start two years ago. The virtual nature and the 1,500-capacity stadium it will be hosted in is aimed at attracting a younger audience.
The venture is the brainchild of TMRW Sports, a company co-founded by Woods and McIlroy. The opening game of the new league sees the trio of Rickie Fowler, Matt Fitzpatrick and Xander Schauffele of the New York Golf Club take on The Bay Golf Club’s Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark and Ludvig Åberg. Ahead of Tuesday’s opening match, McIlroy described it as “golf, but it’s reimagined, sort of trying to take golf into the 21st century.” “We have teams, obviously, there’s a lot of technology involved, trying to bring it into the digital era,” he told ESPN. “A lot of things that we’ve taken from other sports like a shot-clock, a timeout, things that you don’t see in regular golf. (We’re) trying to appeal to that bigger sports audience out there.” McIlroy also added that he and Woods have been extremely hands on during the organizational period of their new tournament. “Tiger and I have been a part of this from day one and whenever you see the concepts and the renderings you think, ‘Yeah, that looks really cool,’” McIlroy told ESPN. “But until you actually stand in here (the SoFi Center) and you see what they’ve been able to do, I think the scale of it is the thing for me that blows my mind. “Every time I step in here, I’m just blown away by the size of the screen, the fact that we’re able to put something that looks like golf on a stage like this. It’s really cool and we’re obviously really excited about it within the game of gol
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