Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TGL announces league format, rules ahead of inaugural 2024 season

The TMRW Golf League (TGL) spearheaded through Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy introduced Tuesday the rules, laws and layout for league play set to start out Jan. 9, 2024. The 15-match common season will set the degree for the postseason the place a best-of-three championship awaits the highest two groups. 

Ahead of each and every three-on-three event, the 2 groups of 4 will announce which of their avid gamers are collaborating. All avid gamers shall be mic’d up.

TGL event layout, scoring

• 15 holes according to event
• Three of 4 golfers from each and every workforce play
• Nine holes of Triples: Alternate shot (three-on-three)
• Six holes of Singles: Head-to-head (one-on-one for 2 holes each and every)
• 1 level according to hollow received | 0 issues if hollow tied
• Overtime: Closest-to-the-pin till one workforce hits two pictures nearer than the opposite

A workforce will earn 2 issues for a victory in both legislation or extra time. An extra time loss will earn a workforce 1 level, whilst a legislation defeat will see the squad come clear of the event empty passed.

TGL playoffs

• Four of six groups qualify
• Single-elimination semifinals fits
• Two groups left status play in best-of-three Championship Series

All TGL fits shall be held on the newly-built SoFi Center at the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The direction throughout the area covers the outside of kind of a soccer box, and it is going to permit avid gamers to hit complete pictures from actual grass tee containers, fairway, tough and sand right into a simulator display 20 instances the usual dimension.

For pictures within 50 yards, competition will transition from the simulator to the “Green Zone,” a fancy spanning greater than 4 basketball courts that includes a massive, adaptable placing floor that may exchange the golf green’s slope relying at the hollow being performed.

2024 TGL roster

TGL instructions the products and services of seven of the highest 10 avid gamers within the Official World Golf Rankings. Its roster has mixed for 32 main championships, 224 PGA Tour victories, 119 global victories and 886 weeks at global No. 1.

• Tiger Woods
• Rory McIlroy
• Jon Rahm
• Collin Morikawa
• Justin Thomas
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Shane Lowry
• Justin Rose
• Adam Scott
• Xander Schauffele
• Max Homa
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Tommy Fleetwood
• Rickie Fowler
• Tom Kim
• Billy Horschel
• Keegan Bradley
• Cameron Young
• Sahith Theegala
• Min Woo Lee
• Patrick Cantlay
• Kevin Kisner
• Wyndham Clark
• Lucas Glover

TGL groups, franchise homeowners

PGA Tour contributors don’t seem to be the one athletes who could have a stake within the recreation as giant names have covered as much as personal TGL franchises. With 5 of the six workforce possession teams named, distinguished sports activities figures corresponding to Stephen Curry, Serena Williams and Alex Morgan are amongst the ones tied to the league. 

• Atlanta Drive GC: led through Atlanta Falcons proprietor Arthur Blank
• Boston Common Golf: led through John Henry, Tom Werner, Mike Gordon and Fenway Sports Group
• Los Angeles Golf Club: led through Alexis Ohanian of Seven Seven Six in addition to Serena and Venus Williams. The Antetokounmpo brothers, Alex Morgan, Servando Carrasco and Michelle Wie West function restricted companions.
• TGL New York: led through New York Mets proprietor Steven Cohen
• TGL San Francisco: led through Avenue Sports Fund’s Marc Lasry, Stephen Curry, Andre Iguodala and Klay Thompson

Both workforce allegiances and a standard season agenda have not begun to be introduced.