Reboot of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy golf league set for January

The reboot of the inaugural season of TGL introduced by SoFi, the tech-infused golf league being fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, will start Jan. 7, 2025, in prime time on ESPN and ESPN+, the league introduced Monday.

The six-team league was scheduled to start play on Jan. 9, 2024, however the launch was delayed after a storm knocked out electrical energy to the momentary energy system and backup system on the SoFi Heart in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida, inflicting the dome to deflate and be broken.

The league unveiled renderings Monday of its new 250,000-square-foot venue on the campus of Palm Seashore State Faculty.

The league will play matches on the primary three Tuesdays of January, coinciding with the NFL playoffs and the Faculty Soccer Playoff. “As we plan the 2025 launch of TGL introduced by SoFi, we now have the primary three Tuesdays in January circled to introduce sports activities followers to this new type of staff golf,” TMRW Sports activities founder and CEO Mike McCarley mentioned in a press release. “January is an incredible time of yr for followers searching for prime time sports activities and TGL’s launch will complement the beginning of the PGA Tour season and make the most of ESPN’s promotional machine throughout their protection of the NFL and faculty soccer playoffs.”

The league mentioned the brand new steel-supported SoFi Heart is an “unprecedented, tech-infused area for golf and can create an intimate and distinctive ‘greenside’ fan expertise with 1,500 seats wrapping round TGL’s area of play, which at 97 yards lengthy and 50 yards huge is sort of the dimensions of a soccer area.”

Together with Woods and McIlroy, PGA Tour stars Max Homa, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa and others have dedicated to play within the league. The matches will characteristic three-man groups competing on a digital course that features actual grass tee containers and the Inexperienced Zone, a 22,475-square-foot short-game advanced that transforms between holes.

TGL additionally introduced particulars of the foundations for the matches, together with a 40-second shot clock. Gamers might be assessed a 1-stroke penalty in the event that they fail to hit the ball in the course of the allotted time. Play might be monitored by an on-course referee and a sales space referee. Every staff can have 4 timeouts, with a most of two per session.

The six four-man groups will characterize Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Jupiter, Florida.

Rosters for Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership, TGL New York and TGL San Francisco might be introduced later.