ESPN Bringing Tech-Heavy TGL Golf to Primetime in 2025
BRISTOL, Conn. and PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. —TGL, the new technology-enabled golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Sports in partnership with the PGA Tour, has announced its season schedule, which will debut on January 7 at ESPN and ESPN+.
The new league is notable for featuring several technological improvements, including a mix of live and virtual games, which sponsors and ESPN hope will build new audiences. a game of golf.
The schedule includes 15 regular-season games, then four-team semifinals, before culminating with the top two teams competing to win the SoFi Cup in a best-of-three Finals game. Monday 24 March and Tuesday 25 March.
“TGL presented by SoFi represents a major advancement in sports innovation and entertainment,” said Rosalyn Durant, executive vice president, programming and properties for ESPN. “We have a lot of respect for the work that the TMRW Sports team has done to introduce TGL and we are confident that our viewers will enjoy the competition and the unique presentation.”
TGL presented by SoFi features six teams of top PGA Tour players competing in the season-long tournament, which brings golf on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The league’s founders and ESPN hope the games will capture fans with a new, technology-enhanced form of golf.
The home of TGL is the custom-built SoFi Center, a 250,000 square foot venue on the campus of Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Designed to create an exciting greenside fan experience, the SoFi Center covers 1,500 fans around the TGL stadium. play, roughly the size of a football field about 100 meters long and 50 meters wide.
In addition to the new location, TGL will bring together golf and technology on an unprecedented scale through a combination of virtual and virtual operations, the league said.
Using a combination of technology throughout the SoFi Center area of the game, the teams will face off in two-hour matches across 15 holes designed in a manner similar to the real and virtual. Teams will hit their shots from boxes lined with grass or real sand to play custom holes, holes displayed on a 3,400 square meter (64 feet by 53 feet) screen, which 24 times larger than a standard golf screen (16). feet by 9 feet).
Once teams are within 50 yards of the hole, they will switch to practice and finish each hole on the 22,475-square-foot short fairway that changes between holes. . The TGL green will use advanced technology to change the shape of the green on each hole, including a 41-yard-wide turntable that rotates around the green and three bunkers to change angles and tees. -about 600 actuators installed under the prosthesis. the climate.
In each tournament, the course will feature 15 of TGL’s 30 holes designed by renowned golf course designers. The holes are inspired by real golf environments such as links, canyons and beaches, deserts and tropical landscapes, designed to challenge TGL’s teams of the world’s best golfers. When holes are announced, images, flyovers]and descriptions will be available on the TGL Media Hub.
The games will feature a number of broadcast improvements: TGL’s technology combination allows every match to be broadcast live; a shot clock, which forces teams to shoot within 40 seconds; unprecedented audio access with all mic’d players; advanced shooting data; production design with robotics and cameras installed throughout the playground; and high-tech, local lighting and video display.
“The TGL presented by SoFi will bring together the world-class stars of the PGA TOUR and the powerful fans familiar with other club sports – an on-court experience for the game of golf on an unprecedented scale,” CEO of TMRW Sports and Founder Mike McCarley said. “Six TGL teams will meet in season from January to March, bringing club golf together for the first time on a consistent basis. In partnership with ESPN, our season will complement the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Season with a fast-paced team competition that aims to attract fans of different sports with things like the shot clock, popular among fans of other sports. The two-hour TGL tournaments are perfect for prime time and will help bring more fans closer to some of the biggest names in golf.
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