Rory McIlroy gives fans sneak preview of TGL after | Golf News

Rory McIlroy gave golf lovers a glimpse of what’s to come back within the inaugural season of the golf league TGL. During halftime of Saturday’s NFL sport between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns, McIlroy sat down with ESPN commentator Scott Van Pelt to debate “Tomorrow’s Golf League” – a tech-infused circuit that the Northern Irishman hopes will revolutionize how the game is watched and performed.

“I think the first thing that I would like to have people know is it’s golf, but it’s reimagined. Sort of trying to take golf into the 21st century,” he began. “We have teams. Obviously, there’s a lot of technology involved, trying to bring it into the digital era. A lot of things that we’ve taken from other sports, like a shot clock, a timeout, things that you don’t see in regular golf. So [we’re] trying to appeal to that bigger sports audience out there.”

On Tuesday, TGL will kick off at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens – a 250,000-square foot enviornment that has the capability to seat 1,500 spectators. In this indoor-based league, 24 PGA Tour gamers can be divided into six groups of 4 and compete on a weekly foundation within the coming months.

The groundbreaking initiative caught the attention of McIlroy and Woods when Mike McCarley launched it in December 2020. The energy trio went on to determine TMRW Sports, launching the league this month after a 12 months’s postponement.

It wasn’t till McIlroy entered SoFi Center, with its huge screen and dynamic inexperienced, that he grasped the enormity of the TGL project.

Golf Monthly’s Matt Cradock experiences that TGL will function a complete prize pot of $21 million, with the victorious workforce pocketing a staggering $9 million on the season’s finish. The inaugural contest will see the New York Golf Club (Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler, and Matt Fitzpatrick) pitted in opposition to The Bay Golf Club (Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark, and Shane Lowry).