TGL (golf league)

TGL (for TMRW Golf League) [1] is a golf league created by TMRW Sports, a venture formed by sports executive Mike McCarley and professional golfers Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in partnership with the PGA Tour.

[2] On August 24, 2022, the PGA Tour, along with Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Mike McCarley, announced the formation of TGL.

[3] 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 prime time on Monday and Tuesday nights, will make up the regular season.

[5][13] It was on that January 7 that the first TGL match took place, a 9–2 win by The Bay Golf Club over New York Golf Club, with The Bay's Shane Lowry and Ludvig Åberg respectively recording the league's first tee shot and first hole won (on a birdie) within a 4-minute span of a match that finished in under 2 hours.

[14] Nearly one million viewers tuned in to the opening night of TGL, with the audience being younger than traditional golf, as organizers had hoped.

Tiger Woods would call the delay "a blessing in disguise" as it would allow TGL to accommodate a better playing and viewing experience at SoFi Center.

[42] TGL matches, especially those early in its first season, receive promotional pushes from major events on the network including the NFL and college football playoffs.

[13][22] ESPN's TGL broadcasts feature Scott Van Pelt as host from his SportsCenter studio in Washington and Matt Barrie calling the play on-site at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, with Marty Smith conducting sideline reports.