The teams at TMRW Sports, simulator provider Full Swing Golf and turf experts SYNLawn heard from players and viewers and spent this past year overhauling some areas and tweaking others for Season 2 that begins on December 28.
Motor City Golf Club is the worst-kept secret in (simulator) golf. Earlier this month, reports surfaced that TGL—the upstart simulator golf league from Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy—had filed a trademark for the franchise moniker.
Who were the biggest winners and most likeable losers over the course of the campaign? What worked, what didn’t and how can the league continue to reinvent not only itself, but pro golf?
Thanks to Horschel’s twisting 18-foot birdie on the 14th hole, Atlanta Drive defeated New York Golf Club 4-3 to sweep the best-of-three finals and claim the $US9 million first-place team prize.
Ahead of TGL’s first-ever triple-header of matches this week, we interviewed TGL’s tech chief Andrew Macaulay to answer all the questions fans have been asking: about how it works, about its accuracy, and about some controversial shots that have golf fans talking.
Winning teams have been employing a strategy best described as “Hammer hoarding”, a loophole that undercuts what the Hammer was meant to be. So TGL is introducing a new rule to fix it.
Though little more than a hypothetical at this stage, Bryson was typically bullish about the opportunity to join Tiger Woods’ and Rory McIlroy’s upstart TGL golf league.
Now that we’ve taken a look at where TGL teams get prepared and wind down for matches, we’re even more jealous that they get to play (simulator) golf as a job.