TGL, the indoor team golf league backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, has announced its full schedule. The six-team league, made up of two dozen PGA Tour players, will debut in early January on ESPN in the middle of the NFL playoffs and will run weekly through the end of March.
The league will begin on Tuesday nights with team golf competitions lasting approximately two hours. Matches will be played at the SoFi Center, a facility in Palm Beach Gardens built specifically to house the high-tech golf simulator, screen and greens, as well as about 1,500 live fans in seats and suites.
The season will include 15 regular season games, a four-team playoff and a best-of-three two-team championship. Each match will have 15 holes: nine for teams and six for individuals.
TGL’s game involves a combination of screen technology for drives and a real, adjustable green for approaches and putting. TGL designers have created 30 holes and will use 15 of them for any match.
The six teams are aligned with various cities and are owned by various other sports owners and ownership groups, such as the Mets’ Steve Cohen, the Falcons’ Arthur Blank, the Red Sox’s Fenway Sports Group and others.
The league will begin on Tuesday, January 7 with New York Golf Club (Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele and Cameron Young) against Bay Golf Club (Ludvig Åberg, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee and Shane Lowry). On January 14, Jupiter Links Golf Club (Woods, Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner) will play Los Angeles Golf Club (Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood and Justin Rose). Later in the season, Atlanta Drive GC (Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel and Lucas Glover) and Boston Common GC (McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama) will debut.
McIlroy and Woods, through their joint venture TMRW Sports, first announced the league in August 2022, at the height of the PGA Tour-LIV Golf division. The hallmark of LIV Golf is team golf, and outside of the Ryder Cup and certain match events, there is no substantial team golf component in PGA Tour golf.
TGL has A fully developed website and social presence.along with explainer videos and merchandise, designed to create instant brand alignment based on fans’ connection to both specific players and “host” cities. The league was scheduled to begin play in early 2024, but a storm damaged the facility and forced a one-year delay.
The league playoffs will run through the end of March, concluding just weeks before the Masters and the start of golf’s main season.