Tiger Woods will present TGL with loads of star energy and a probable scores increase this week because the 15-time main champion will get set to make his debut within the tech-infused indoor golf league on Tuesday.
Final week’s two-hour ESPN broadcast of TGL’s launch, a one-sided match, drew a mean of 919,000 viewers, a determine that’s certain to rise this week given will probably be a uncommon take a look at Woods in competitors.
Whereas Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership workforce had been already slotted into the TGL schedule for Tuesday’s 7 p.m. ET (0000 GMT) match, he was solely confirmed final Friday as one of many beginning threesome alongside Max Homa and Kevin Kisner.
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Jupiter Hyperlinks will face the Los Angeles Golf Membership trio of Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala for 9 holes of alternate shot, or triples, adopted by a head-to-head spherical the place every competitor performs two full holes over the ultimate six.
Woods’ injury-riddled physique has restricted his begins lately however TGL provides some reprieve because the two-hour matches performed over 15 holes are held indoors on a taking part in floor related in measurement to an American soccer subject.
The 49-year-old Woods, who has not competed in a PGA Tour occasion since final July’s British Open the place he missed the reduce, will hit Tuesday’s opening shot when he steps as much as The Plank, a 376-yard, uphill par-four first.
The sight of Woods, the best golfer of his era, taking purpose at a five-storey-high simulator display earlier than transferring to a inexperienced that rotates is probably not of curiosity to golf purists, it’s, nonetheless, one of many uncommon probabilities to see him in motion today.
Since lacking the reduce on the British Open, Woods had again surgical procedure in September, opted to not compete within the 20-player event he hosted final December and performed together with his son in a 36-hole scramble occasion.
Woods and four-time main champion Rory McIlroy co-founded TGL, which was fashioned in partnership with the PGA Tour, with hopes that the fast-paced twist on an age-old sport will assist entice new followers.
“It’s not conventional golf, sure, however it’s golf,” Woods mentioned through the TV broadcast of the TGL launch that he attended