Spearheaded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, TGL is a unique indoor golf league that gives golf its 21st-century facelift. The inaugural season is scheduled for January 2024 and will aim to bring the traditional game of golf in combination with high-tech innovations in a bid to attract another type of audience and define a different experience in the sport.
The Tech-Enabled Golf League (TGL) is one of the projects under TMRW Sports, which has been co-founded by Woods and McIlroy. Opposite from the format where golf tournaments take place in sprawling courses covering kilometers, TGL events will take place inside high-tech arenas with simulators and actual short-game setups.
This is not golf as we know it; it’s golf reimagined. We’re taking everything we love about the sport and merging it with technology and entertainment to create something fresh and exciting,” Woods said.
How It Works
The TGL will host six teams of four players each competing in a league format. It will play at an exclusive venue where the long shots will be virtual but putting and chipping will be on a real green. All events are present as time structured so that none take more than two hours to clear, appealing to those who want to see golf played in a more compact form.
Giant names in the sport like Jon Rahm, Justin Thomas, and Collin Morikawa, together with Woods and McIlroy, already form part of the TGL. They will compete in front of real crowds, all set up with an event filled with fanfare-great graphics, augmented reality, and interactive fan engagement-for that final touch on the enhanced experience.
Why it Matters
Attracting younger, more tech parlance of audiences into the starkly slow elitist nature of golf outside of this is what TGL aspires for. Attracting a much wider audience of golf at this time is the main agenda of the league.
