Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy’s TGL confirms launch on Tuesday nights starting January 2025

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL simulator golf league introduced Monday that its inaugural season will launch in January 2025. The opening three matches will happen on the primary three Tuesdays of the month starting Jan. 7.

The league was initially set to debut in January 2024 solely to have its begin pushed a whole 12 months when building on its facility in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida, was broken. TGL has since determined to construct a more-formal area, the SoFi Middle, on the identical website — Palm Seashore State Faculty.

“January is an incredible time of 12 months for followers in search of prime time sports activities, and TGL’s launch will complement the beginning of the PGA Tour season and benefit from ESPN’s promotional machine throughout their protection of the NFL and Faculty Soccer Playoff,” stated Mike McCarley, founder and CEO of TMRW Sports activities, in a press release.

The league initially introduced that it might play steadily on Monday nights in 2024. TGL will probably play a mix of Mondays and Tuesdays in 2025 with the season wrapping up in March earlier than preparation for the Masters and main championship season, CBS Sports activities has confirmed.

TGL’s host facility was broken in November 2023 when its short-term energy system and backup techniques failed inflicting the bubble being constructed to deflate. That won’t be a problem shifting ahead as TGL launched renderings of a brand new construction that can home the competitors.

The course throughout the SoFi Middle covers the floor of roughly a soccer subject, and it’ll enable gamers to hit full pictures from actual grass tee containers, fairway, tough and sand right into a simulator display screen 20 instances the usual measurement. For pictures inside 50 yards, rivals will transition from the simulator to the “Inexperienced Zone,” a posh spanning greater than 4 basketball courts that options a big, adaptable placing floor that may change the inexperienced’s slope relying on the opening being performed.

TGL will function a 15-match common season that can set the stage for the postseason the place a best-of-three championship awaits the highest two groups. Forward of every three-on-three match, the 2 groups of 4 will announce which of their gamers are collaborating. All gamers might be mic’d up.

TGL match format, scoring

• 15 holes per match
• Three of 4 golfers from every staff play
• 9 holes of Triples: Alternate shot (three-on-three)
• Six holes of Singles: Head-to-head (one-on-one for 2 holes every)
• 1 level per gap received | 0 factors if gap tied
• Additional time: Closest-to-the-pin till one staff hits two pictures nearer than the opposite

A staff will earn 2 factors for a victory in both regulation or additional time. An additional time loss will earn a staff 1 level, whereas a regulation defeat will see the squad come away from the match empty handed.

TGL Groups

Different participant commitments

• Wyndham Clark
• Xander Schauffele
• Max Homa
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Tom Kim
• Cameron Younger
• Min Woo Lee
• Rickie Fowler
• Shane Lowry
• Kevin Kisner