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

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 competing. The video below explains more.

TGL, which was supposed to launch in January this year before its dome collapsed two months earlier, is comprised of six teams. Those include Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Links Golf Club and Rory McIlroy’s Boston Common Golf, but the first match will be between the New York Golf Club and The Bay Golf Club.

You can catch TGL matches on ESPN or ESPN2, or stream them on ESPN Plus. The schedule is here. In-person tickets to the Palm Beach Gardens, Florida venue start at $160 and go up for presale on October 28th, with public sales beginning the next day. The tournament will run through March 24th and 25th, when the last two teams will play out a best-of-three Finals Series.