Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Golf League (TGL) is starting to take form with the league making a couple of bulletins Thursday. The most important used to be that TGL has reached a multi-year deal with ESPN making the sports activities community the unique media rights spouse of TGL as soon as suits start in January 2024.
The partnership with ESPN starts Saturday, Dec. 30 with a TGL preview display on ABC sooner than league play will get underway. The first two weeks will see TGL airing on Tuesday nights — Jan. 9 at 9 p.m. ET and Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. ET — sooner than league matchups in large part transfer to Mondays. The debut weeks will air Tuesdays due to NFL and school soccer.
An in depth time table for all the season will probably be launched at a later date. Whether TGL airs on ESPN or ESPN2, video games will probably be simulcast on ESPN+.
TGL additionally introduced Thursday that Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood, Tom Kim and Tyrrell Hatton had been added to the roster with 16 gamers now dedicated to play in the inaugural season.
“I have been excited about the TGL since it was announced,” stated Fleetwood. “Many of my fondest memories in golf have been playing in team competitions. With the players who have already been announced along with the names and stature of the ownership groups and investors, the league is in position to showcase our sport in a cool format to a new group of viewers and fans.”
In partnership with the PGA Tour, TGL will encompass a 15-match regular-season time table with playoffs to practice. Six groups will face one any other in two-hour head-to-head suits which might be supposed to be more simply digestable than longer golfing occasions due to their shortened period. Players will strike complete photographs — each off the tee and approaches into the golf green — right into a simulator with short-game photographs taking place are living in entrance of lovers in the SoFi Center — a brand new area constructed at the Palm Beach State campus in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
TGL instructions the products and services of 9 of the highest 20 gamers in the Official World Golf Rankings. Its roster of gamers has mixed for 29 primary championships, 195 PGA Tour victories and 886 weeks at global No. 1.
The remainder of TGL’s 16-player roster comprises Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Collin Morikawa, Jon Rahm, Justin Rose, Xander Schauffele, Adam Scott and Justin Thomas. Along with Woods, McIlroy, Fleetwood, Hatton, Lowry and Kim, there are handiest two spots to be had as TGL plans to have six groups of 3 PGA Tour gamers.
The giant names related to the league don’t forestall with those that are hitting the photographs. TGL has up to now introduced 4 of six crew possession teams. Atlanta Falcons proprietor Arthur Blank leads TGL Atlanta. Fenway Sports Group is in the back of TGL Boston. Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian, Serena and Venus Williams — as neatly as restricted companions Alex Morgan, Michell Wie West, Servando Carrasco and the Antetokounmpo brothers — personal Los Angeles Golf Club. Mets proprietor Steven Cohen fronts TGL New York. The two last possession teams stay unnamed.Â