Tiger Woods’ TGL unveils a part of 2025 schedule, new metal facility

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL league didn’t get off to a great begin—a deflating one, in actual fact.

However the brand new league—postponed a 12 months due to a dome collapse—will formally kick off on Jan. 7, 2025, the primary Tuesday of the 12 months.

ESPN will televise the league’s first match, which shall be held two days after the conclusion of the NFL’s common season.

Per week later, ESPN will air TGL’s second match on Jan. 14, 2025, one evening after the ‘Worldwide Chief in Sports activities’ airs its Monday evening NFL playoff sport.

Then, on Jan. 21, 2025, the evening after faculty soccer’s nationwide championship sport, ESPN will telecast TGL’s third match of the season. The rest of the 15-game schedule shall be introduced later this 12 months.

“As we plan the 2025 launch of TGL offered by SoFi, we now have the primary three Tuesdays in January circled to introduce sports activities followers to this new type of group golf,” mentioned Mike McCarley, founder and CEO of TMRW Sports activities, in a press release.

“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.”

The PGA Tour sometimes begins its season in Hawaii at The Sentry and the Sony Open throughout the first two weeks of January. Nonetheless, that might all change in 2025, relying on whether or not the tour modifications its construction, due to a potential cope with the Saudi Public Funding Fund (PIF).

But when these two occasions stay on {the golfing} calendar subsequent 12 months, which is the almost definitely situation, a journey snafu for some gamers might emerge.

With The Sentry penciled in to complete on Sunday, Jan. 5, some TGL gamers must fly again to South Florida from Maui for the inaugural match two nights later.

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TGL will host its occasions on the newly up to date SoFi Middle, a steel-supported construction situated on the campus of Palm Seaside State Faculty in Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida.

Extra details about the intricacies of the SoFi Middle follows under:

SoFi Middle is an unprecedented, tech-infused area for golf and can create an intimate and distinctive “greenside” expertise for followers with 1,500 seats wrapping round TGL’s subject of play, which is analogous to the dimensions of a soccer subject at 97-yards lengthy and 50-yards large.

TGL matches will begin with groups teeing off from actual grass tee packing containers to play custom-designed, digital holes projected onto a 3,000-square-foot display (64’x46’), greater than 20 occasions bigger than a typical golf simulator display (144 sq. ft, 16’x9’).

As soon as groups are inside roughly 50 yards they’ll transition to stay motion and end every gap inside TGL’s GreenZone, a 22,475-square-foot quick sport complicated that transforms between holes.

Six TGL groups will compete throughout the league’s inaugural season, that are listed under:

Atlanta Drive GC

• Justin Thomas
• Patrick Cantlay
• Billy Horschel
• Lucas Glover

Boston Frequent Golf

• Rory McIlroy
• Adam Scott
• Keegan Bradley
• TBD (previously Tyrrell Hatton, since joined LIV Golf)

Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership

• Tiger Woods
• Three gamers TBD

Los Angeles Golf Membership

• Collin Morikawa
• Justin Rose
• Sahith Theegala
• Tommy Fleetwood

TGL New York

TGL San Francisco

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By way of. Make sure you try @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You’ll be able to observe him on Twitter @jack_milko as nicely.