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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's Indoor Golf League Has a Schedule, But They Won't Play Right Away

The Florida-based simulator league with teams of PGA Tour players will begin Jan. 7 and its two biggest names will face off in a match on Jan. 27.

Bob Harig

The indoor simulator league TGL, founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, will finally begin play in January.
The indoor simulator league TGL, founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, will finally begin play in January. / THOMAS CORDY/THE PALM BEACH POST / USA TODAY NETWORK

TGL, the simulator golf league that will launch in January after a year delay, won’t see its founders and owners compete until the fourth week of the schedule.

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy are not scheduled to be part of the competition until late January, when their respective Jupiter and Boston Common teams square off on Jan. 27.

On Monday the league announced its full schedule, which begins on Jan. 7.

It includes 15 regular season matches, followed by a four-team semifinals with the top two teams competing over two days for the SoFi Cup on March 24-25.

The league boasts that every shot will be broadcast live with the first seven weeks to be on ESPN, with others to be on ESPN2 or ESPN+.

The matches to be contested indoors at a facility in West Palm Beach, Fla., will be primarily in prime time on Mondays and Tuesdays, with the each match to run about two hours and featuring three of the four players from each team.

The first one on Jan. 7 is at 9 p.m. ET and features New York Golf Club against the Bay Golf Club.

Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler and Cameron Young represent the New York team while Ludvig Aberg, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee and Shane Lowry make up the Bay Golf Club.

McIlroy’s Boston Common team includes Keegan Bradley, Adam Scott and Hideki Matsuyama and will play against Woods’s Jupiter Links Golf Club on Jan. 27.  Woods’s teammates are Max Homa, Tom Kim and Kevin Kisner.

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Bob Harig
BOB HARIG

Bob Harig is a senior writer covering golf for Sports Illustrated. He has more than 25 years experience on the beat, including 15 at ESPN. Harig is a regular guest on Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio and has written two books, "DRIVE: The Lasting Legacy of Tiger Woods" and "Tiger and Phil: Golf's Most Fascinating Rivalry." He graduated from Indiana University where he earned an Evans Scholarship, named in honor of the great amateur golfer Charles (Chick) Evans Jr. Harig, a former president of the Golf Writers Association of America, lives in Clearwater, Fla.

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