The match between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy fulfilled the expectations of those present and viewers on TV screens. Although many favored McIlroy’s team, Tiger’s team used their previous experience and earlier performance to celebrate this time.
However, it seems that the priority of this competition is not victory, but rather fun and innovation in the world of golf.
After the match, Tiger Woods admitted that this was an incredible experience for him. The golf icon is especially delighted with the audience’s reaction, hoping that the viewership is engaged.
When creating TGL, both had the idea that this would become a project that would break records. Judging so far, they seem to be on the right track.
“It couldn’t have been a more pleasurable display of golf, banter,” said Woods, as quoted by Aol.
“Everyone in the audience was engaged. Hopefully all the viewership were engaged. We as players loved it.
This is what we had envisioned for TGL, to have an experience like this, and I think we delivered.”
Rory McIlroy on younger demographics
Rory McIlroy, although he goes home defeated, is satisfied with the match and the crowd’s reaction. After the creation of TGL, both of them stressed that attracting the younger population is their priority.
Although it is still not known how much younger people were interested in this match, judging by some information from the media, the younger population is delighted with such innovations, having an interest in following TGL.
“It was a great match all night, back and forth, and exactly what the league needed,” said McIlroy.
“It’s been really cool to hear that a younger demographic, it’s resonated with them.
One of the visions when we started was to try to engage that younger demographic and give them a bite-sized version of golf that they could get into and understand, and hopefully we’ve done that.”- McIlroy said.
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