Tiger Woods of the USA and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland stroll to the 11th fairway accurate via a apply round sooner than the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 03, 2023 in Augusta, Georgia.
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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s indoor golf league, TGL, has postponed its inaugural season by a year till the originate of 2025, the organization said Monday.
The resolution comes after the roof of the unusual arena slated to host TGL fits collapsed closing week. The league said the energy design outmoded accurate via constructing of the SoFi Heart in Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida failed, inflicting a dome structure to deflate.
The accident did now not plan off accidents or spoil the league’s golf simulators and other know-how, TGL said. However TGL delayed the season, which became expected to delivery in January, after talking to key partners.
“This resolution came after reviewing brief-term solutions, likely constructing timelines, player schedules, and the primetime sports tv calendar,” the league said in a press delivery. “We’re confident that the extension will fully make stronger our starting up.”
TGL, which counts the PGA Tour as a partner, became basically based by McIlroy, Woods and worn NBC government Mike McCarthy. The trio wishes to develop a primetime indoor golf league to entice unusual fans to the game at because the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, and then its proposed merger with the PGA Tour, left golf at a crossroads.
Woods became optimistic in regards to the league’s future despite the delayed delivery.
“Although the events of closing week will force us to compose adjustments to our timelines, I’m fully confident that this conception will be brought to life by our substantial committed gamers,” Woods said in a press delivery Monday.
TGL has drawn one of the most correct golfers within the arena as half of its lineup. It be unclear how the unusual timeline will get an affect on player participation.
The league has also attracted a risk of excessive-profile team homeowners and investors alongside side hedge funder Steve Cohen, Atlanta Falcons proprietor Arthur Blank, Fenway Sports actions Crew, tech founder Alexis Ohanian and tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams. Other investors within the league encompass basketball substantial Stephen Curry, skedaddle automobile driver Lewis Hamilton, females’s soccer player Alex Morgan, singer Justin Timberlake and reputable soccer’s Tony Romo and Josh Allen.
TGL signed a multi-year media rights address ESPN in October to broadcast its events.
ESPN said it fully supports the resolution to extend the 2024 season.
“We have believed in them and their vision from the starting set up, and that has now not modified. The time past rules to plan, take a look at and rehearse will fully compose it larger, said Rosalyn Durant, government vp, programming and acquisitions at ESPN.
