This Sunday, 28 December, the second season of the TGL kicks off, the cutting-edge indoor golf league that has sparked enormous interest in the United States. The opportunity to see some of the world’s best players in action in a different game format, competing inside a stadium as if it were a basketball match, with different teams, direct confrontations, and a final points classification, has caught the attention of golf fans both in the option of enjoying it live at the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and following it on television with dynamic and entertaining broadcasts.
The six teams that started the league at the beginning of the year remain intact, although with one significant temporary absence: the Jupiter Links will not be able to count on Tiger Woods for the moment, one of the ideologues of this competition, who is recovering from back surgery. The Californian has confirmed that he will miss the first part of the season, although he hopes to return in time to play in 2026. But even though everything seems the same, the truth is that some new features are being prepared for this season and the future.
For example, the graphics on the screen towards which participants hit their ball have been improved. Additionally, spectators at the SoFi Center will have headphones to more easily hear the jokes during the game. Some very prominent golf course designers, including names as prestigious as Jack Nicklaus, Gil Hanse, and Beau Welling, are designing the holes. And each team will have an iconic hole that reflects their city. This is for the new season starting on Sunday. But more changes are brewing in the tour’s kitchen…
Detroit will have a franchise starting in 2027. And some moves are being made to form another team, perhaps with the intention of involving the current Number One in the world, Scottie Scheffler. Until then, the competition will continue to play its matches on Monday and Tuesday nights, although the day after tomorrow, taking advantage of the fact that the major tours are on ‘holiday’, the course will begin. And on Friday, 2 January, there will be a new session featuring the Boston Common with Rory McIlroy.
The schedule will be somewhat complex because after that meeting on 2 January, Boston will not play again until the 26th when Rory finishes his two weeks of tournaments in Dubai on the DP World Tour. A schedule that, according to Billy Horschel, may improve when the PGA Tour completes its calendar review: “Many changes are coming for 2027 that may make organising a bit easier and perhaps encourage many who had rejected the proposal to participate.”
Horschel still remembers the stir caused by the launch of the TMRW Golf League: “I’ve been on the PGA Tour for 16 years, and I think anyone who has been on the circuit for a while, the monotony of it can get a bit exhausting, and that doesn’t mean the passion for competing has diminished. So it’s not that the fire for competing has diminished. So when you can do something that revives that enthusiasm and gives you that youthful energy… And that’s what I had, that young energy throughout the TGL season because it was something different and something we were all experiencing for the first time,” he said.
Now the new course kicks off with a rematch of the 2025 final, in which Atlanta Drive defeated New York in a couple of one-point matches that led to some drama. Horschel is part of the Atlanta Drive, which will not have Justin Thomas, who is recovering from a back injury. And as his words reflect, he faces this second year of the TGL with excitement…
