Tiger Woods TGL golf league delayed until 2025 after dome collapse
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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s indoor golf league, TGL, has postponed its inaugural season by a yr till the beginning of 2025, the group stated Monday.

The choice comes after the roof of the brand new enviornment slated to host TGL matches collapsed last week. The league stated the facility system used throughout development of the SoFi Middle in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida failed, inflicting a dome construction to deflate.

The accident didn’t trigger accidents or injury the league’s golf simulators and different expertise, TGL stated. However TGL delayed the season, which was anticipated to start out in January, after chatting with key companions.

“This choice got here after reviewing short-term options, potential development timelines, participant schedules, and the primetime sports activities tv calendar,” the league stated in an announcement. “We’re assured that the extension will solely enhance our supply.”

TGL, which counts the PGA Tour as a associate, was based by McIlroy, Woods and former NBC govt Mike McCarthy. The trio desires to create a primetime indoor golf league to draw new followers to the game at because the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, after which its proposed merger with the PGA Tour, left golf at a crossroads.

Woods was optimistic in regards to the league’s future regardless of the delayed launch.

“Though the occasions of final week will drive us to make changes to our timelines, I am absolutely assured that this idea shall be delivered to life by our nice dedicated gamers,” Woods stated in an announcement Monday.

TGL has drawn a few of the finest golfers on the planet as a part of its lineup. It is unclear how the brand new timeline may have an effect on participant participation.

The league has additionally attracted a variety of high-profile crew homeowners and traders together with hedge funder Steve Cohen, Atlanta Falcons proprietor Arthur Clean, Fenway Sports Group, tech founder Alexis Ohanian and tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams. Other investors in the league embody basketball nice Stephen Curry, race automotive driver Lewis Hamilton, girls’s soccer participant Alex Morgan, singer Justin Timberlake and professional soccer’s Tony Romo and Josh Allen.

TGL signed a multi-year media rights take care of ESPN in October to broadcast its occasions.

ESPN stated it absolutely helps the choice to postpone the 2024 season.

“We have now believed in them and their imaginative and prescient from the start, and that has not modified. The extra time to plan, take a look at and rehearse will solely make it higher, stated Rosalyn Durant, govt vp, programming and acquisitions at ESPN.