Loin du golf traditional, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy ont lance, hier soir, leur new adventure, TGL, in Florida. In an amphitheater full of cracker, the great golf stars face synthetic spaces in a new and revolutionary universe.
Six teams of four players, 15 matches and hundreds of shots recorded in a state-of-the-art simulator on a screen in addition to a huge size of IMAX cinemas, welcome to the new era of sportive entertainment on small screens.
Located in Palm Seashore Gardens, the SoFi Heart, a 250,000-foot structure with 1,500 seats, a 64-foot-high by 53-foot-tall screen, and a 3,800-foot-high game room robotically changing the relief, a pris fri.
As in the resume of New York Put-up colleague Mark Cannizzaro, present in Florida for this launch, the SoFi Heart is a “paradisiacal gaming atmosphere, a stereo-driven golf simulator, a sensory overload.”
explosive mixture
TGL, Tomorrow Golf League, is an explosive mix between WWE, NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL. I propose an environment at the other end of the feutres tournaments of the PGA professional circuit and all the other major events.
Golfers present themselves as real rock or wrestling stars. During the 15-hole match in which everyone wears a microphone, we hear them think, react, interact and peck at their rivals. They presented themselves to their audience with their musical firmament. The awarding of points in the leaderboard is similar to the Bettman circuit.
I thought of all this in the function of entertaining the audience while the target audience is neither more nor less the new generation.
“It’s hard to believe this dream has come true,” Tiger Woods said during the broadcast of the first game Tuesday afternoon on ESPN. “We have managed to take golf to a new stratosphere.”
Wall to wall pleasure
First of all, I am going to execute for the pleasure of the players of the New York Golf Membership and the Bay Golf Membership formations. And also if ceux du Bay GC flanked a 9-2 volley against New York, the duel autant les joueurs que les amateurs agité leur napkin toute la soirée.
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“I’ve never had so much fun for two hours on a golf course,” said Irishman Shane Lowry, winner in the Bay Membership lineup alongside Ludvig Aber and Wyndham Clark.
Chatouiller also benefited from the ego of the Americans Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele in the other rappelling field, the European descent to the latest Coupe Ryder.
The future?
According to Aberg, the TGL is the future of golf. “I was always jealous of basketball and soccer players who played in this type of environment, in front of a large crowd in a stadium. “We didn’t have it in golf.”
Fowler insisted that the TGL was not the purview of the PGA. After two years, the men’s golf professional lost his feathers.
«It is a supplement for our sport because we will probably be able to do what we can do. It is not a limit step. Ce n’est que le debut.»
The 15 games on the calendar appear in the debut of the week. Justement, mardi prochain, this will be the entry into the official scene of Tiger Woods with his Jupiter Hyperlinks membership composed of Tom Kim, Max Homa and Kevin Kisner. He faces Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose and Sahith Theegala, in the Los Angeles club.
The inner workings of TGL
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» Creation of the TMRW sports fund by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Mike McCarley, former Golf Channel management chef
» 6 teams (four golfers each)
»Season of 15 games in full (January to March)
» The 4 best teams in the classification qualify for the round of 16
» The ultimate is played in the best matches of three
» The games: the SoFi Coupe, $9 M on the champion team, total purse of $21 M
The teams
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» Los Angeles Common: Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose, Sahith Theegala
» Jupiter Hyperlinks GC: Tiger Woods, Max Homa, Tom Kim, Kevin Kisner
» Atlanta Drive Common: Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, Lucas Glover
» Frequent Boston golfer: Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley
» New York Common: Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Younger
»The Common Bay: Ludvig Aberg, Shane Lowry, Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee
The format
» 15-team match between two teams in a digital tour
» Each match is divided into 2 sessions: triples and singles
Triples: in an alternative formula with the rest of the active players
Les simple: 1 on 1 competition over three segments of two trous chacun.
» The point system: 1 point for each pass. There is no level for a tie on a hole
» Qu’est-ce que le «marteau» : opportunity to double the value of a trou (2 points)
If the rival team opposes Marteau, the issue is reported by the team that has to impose it, but you control the implementation of the Marteau prochain.
»In case of a tie after 15 years: precision competition. The team that places two of the balls closest to the flag wins.
» Victory in regulation time and overtime: 2 points
» Deficit in extension: 1 point
» Each hit is limited to a chronometric execution of 40 seconds.
A defect of oneself causes a penalty at once
The SoFi Center in brief
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» The tower structure, a dome, was demolished during a power outage during a storm in November 2023.
» 250,000 square feet
» 1,500 sieges
» Screen 64 feet high by 53 feet wide
» 18 Élan radars and 8 optical trackers
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» Playing area of 3,800 feet of fairway for shots of 50 edges and less.
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» Green area: place on a pivoting platform with 41 edges in diameter
It has several pools filled with white sand like the Augusta cells during the Masters.
The green zone offers seven flag locations.
Its relief is actuated by 567 hydraulic cylinders.
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