A mega screen twenty-four times larger than a simulator, microphones, lights, a 23,500 square meter arena, background music, a stopwatch. The TGL (Tomorrow’s Golf League), a technological golf league created by TMRW Sports, together with two icons of the green like Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, in collaboration with the PGA Tour, kicked off with the first challenge won at the So-Fi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 9-2 by the Bay Golf Club team of Ludvig Aberg, Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark and Min Woo Lee, able to easily defeat the New York GC of Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler and Cameron Young.
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“This is golf in the twenty-first century”. This is how McIlroy described the new green experience, for many the answer to the economic advance of the Arab Super League, the Liv financed by the PIF, the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. “What initially seemed like just a dream has become reality, we have taken golf to another stratosphere”, Woods’ satisfaction. Six, the teams that are part of the technological league, with many stars of the PGA Tour to represent what for many could become the new era of professional golf. The challenges of this championship are played over a distance of 15 holes and the first birdie was made by Aberg.
“I have always been envious of basketball and American football players. Now, however, I have finally experienced this stadium sensation totally different from a classic golf tournament. My heart, during the match, was beating fast. I was sweating with emotion, this is the future”, the conviction of the Swedish talent.
The first match lasted less than two hours and now the wait is all for Woods. The Californian champion, together with his team, Jupiter Golf Links, also composed of Max Homa, Kevin Kisner and Tom Kim, will debut on Tuesday 14 January and will face Los Angeles’ Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood and Sahith Theegala.
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