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Tiger Woods’ new tech golf league brings big screens to the green in January

An image showing what you might expect of the TGL league games, showing a person driving a ball at a large screen.
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Tiger Woods is gearing up to debut TGL, a new “tech-infused, team golf league” he co-founded with fellow pro golfer Rory McIlroy next year. The first matchup at the SoFi Center in Florida will premiere on ESPN and ESPN Plus on January 7th, the league announced today.

TGL is essentially a big-budget version of Top Golf that happens in a stadium setting. In matches, two teams of golfers will drive balls into a 3,400-square-foot screen until they get within 50 yards of the “hole.” Then they’ll switch to a football field-sized artificial green that morphs between holes using “nearly 600 motorized actuators” and a 41-yard-wide rotating section.

Each match is expected to take about two hours and will see three of each team’s four players…

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