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Golf's new sensation: "Unlike anything we've seen before"

Golf is moving indoors – and becomes a hybrid between simulated and real shots, between reality and fiction. It resembles nothing we've seen before, especially in golf, says Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy. On Tuesday, some of the sport's world stars will face off in a massive arena in Palm Beach, Florida.

» Published: January 06 2025

Golf's new sensation: "Unlike anything we've seen before"
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Here is a guide to the new indoor venture, TGL :

+ Created by superstars – for the world elite

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are behind the concept and the league attracts the absolute world elite. World number one Scottie Scheffler is missing, but the six four-man teams include 13 different major winners with players like Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, and the Swedish star Ludvig Åberg.

The league is organized in collaboration with the PGA tour and no players from the competing LIV tour are participating. Therefore, players like Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka are missing.

+ How does it work?

The matches are decided indoors in a 23,000 square meter indoor arena in Palm Beach with room for 1,500 spectators. The long shots are hit just like in regular simulator golf – except that the screen is over 320 square meters large. Moreover, the long shots are hit from real grass in different lengths for fairway and rough.

The players wear technical equipment. Before each shot, they receive information about distance and simulated wind conditions.

When the players have about 50 meters left, they hit a real shot against an artificial green, which can rotate 360 degrees to create different angles and slopes. Even bunker shots – both short and long – take place in real sand. Of the same type as found in the bunkers at Augusta National, which hosts the Masters major tournament every year.

We want to do it differently than what people see on the golf course. This should be different. It should be new, it should be fast, engaging, in a two-hour window where you can see every golf shot, says American professional golfer Billy Horschel to AP.

+ First match

Ludvig Åberg, Wyndham Clark, and Shane Lowry play for The Bay and face Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick, and Ricke Fowler, who form New York in Tuesday's opening match. The other teams are Atlanta Drive, Los Angeles, Boston Common, and Jupiter Links.

The indoor league concludes on March 4. The playoffs take place on March 17-18 (semifinals) and March 24-25 (final).

+ Broadcast on Disney+

In Sweden, it is Disney+ that has the rights, but initially, it will be broadcast without Swedish commentators. Instead, it will be American commentators from ESPN, which broadcasts the league in the US.

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