TGL is a planned golf league created by TMRW Sports, a venture formed by sports executive

Mike McCarley Mike McCarley is an American media executive and the founder and CEO of TMRW Sports, a company which he founded with Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. Previously, he was president of golf for the NBC Sports Group after leading marketing for NBC's Olym ...

and professional golfers Tiger Woods and

Rory McIlroy Rory Daniel McIlroy (born 4 May 1989) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who is a member of both the European and PGA Tours. He is the current world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has spent over 100 weeks in tha ...

in partnership with the PGA Tour. Its launch was delayed from 2024 to 2025, with events planned to be held on weeknights in conjunction with the PGA Tour schedule.

History

On August 24, 2022, the PGA Tour, along with Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Mike McCarley, announced the formation of TGL. It will initially feature six teams of three PGA Tour players, competing head-to-head in 18-hole match play on a virtual course with a special short game area. Fifteen matches, each lasting two hours and played in primetime on Monday and Tuesday nights, will make up the regular season. The semi-finals and a final match will be held at the end of the season. Initial investors include

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players

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, Kevin Durant, Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, soccer player Alex Morgan, MLB players Shohei Ohtani and

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quarterback Josh Allen, tennis player Serena Williams, and WNBA player

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. Other investors include pop artist

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CEO

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, and

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CEO Greg Maffei. TGL was originally planned to launch in 2024. It was delayed until 2025 after the host arena under construction was damaged due to a power failure.

Venue

TMRW Sports is building the first TGL venue, the SoFi Center, in

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, through a partnership with Palm Beach State College. The group broke ground at the venue on February 20, 2023. The venue will include educational and recreational facilities. Construction is being overseen by CAA Icon. In November 2023, a power failure at the construction site caused the deflation of SoFi Center's air-supported roof, causing damage to portions of the structure.

Teams

Broadcasting

No broadcaster for TGL was announced during the league's unveiling. An August 2022 report by ''

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'' indicated that

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had an option to carry league events. On October 5, 2023,

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announced it had secured media rights for the league in a "multi-year" deal, with all matches airing on ESPN or ESPN2, and streaming on

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; the first match was originally scheduled to air on January 9, 2024, immediately following the

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Roster

Woods, McIlroy, Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm were the first four golfers to commit to compete in the league. Twenty more players have since signed on leaving the roster set at twenty-four. Rahm withdrew from the league in November 2023, shortly before joining LIV Golf. In January 2024, Tyrrell Hatton also joined LIV Golf after negotiating his exit from TGL. In June 2024 it was announced that Hatton would be replaced by Hideki Matsuyama * Ludvig Åberg * Keegan Bradley * Patrick Cantlay *

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* Tommy Fleetwood *

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* Lucas Glover * Max Homa * Billy Horschel *

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* Shane Lowry *

* Collin Morikawa * Justin Rose * Xander Schauffele * Adam Scott *

Sahith Theegala Sahith Reddy Theegala (born December 4, 1997) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Early life Theegala was born in 1997 in Fullerton, California, to Muralidhar and Karuna Theegala and has a younger brother. He is of Indi ...

* Justin Thomas * Tiger Woods *

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* Hideki Matsuyama

Footnotes

References

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