Tiger Woods’ new tech golf league brings big screens to the green in January

Tiger Woods is gearing up to debut TGL, a caller “tech-infused, squad play league” helium co-founded with chap pro golfer Rory McIlroy adjacent year. The archetypal matchup astatine the SoFi Center successful Florida volition premiere connected ESPN and ESPN Plus connected January 7th, the league announced today.

TGL is fundamentally a big-budget mentation of Top Golf that happens successful a stadium setting. In matches, 2 teams of golfers volition thrust balls into a 3,400-square-foot surface until they get wrong 50 yards of the “hole.” Then they’ll power to a shot field-sized artificial greenish that morphs betwixt holes utilizing “nearly 600 motorized actuators” and a 41-yard-wide rotating section.

Each lucifer is expected to instrumentality astir 2 hours and volition spot 3 of each team’s 4 players competing. The video beneath explains more.

TGL, which was expected to motorboat successful January this twelvemonth earlier its dome collapsed 2 months earlier, is comprised of six teams. Those see Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Links Golf Club and Rory McIlroy’s Boston Common Golf, but the archetypal lucifer volition beryllium betwixt the New York Golf Club and The Bay Golf Club.

You tin drawback TGL matches connected ESPN oregon ESPN2, oregon watercourse them connected ESPN Plus. The schedule is here. In-person tickets to the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida venue commencement astatine $160 and spell up for presale connected October 28th, with nationalist income opening the adjacent day. The tourney volition tally done March 24th and 25th, erstwhile the past 2 teams volition play retired a best-of-three Finals Series.