{"id":15555686,"date":"2025-01-07T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golf.com\/?post_type=article&p=15555686"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:05:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T16:05:42","slug":"tiger-woods-tgl-indoor-golf-league-espn-debut","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/golf.com\/lifestyle\/tiger-woods-tgl-indoor-golf-league-espn-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods’ golf league starts tonight. Here are answers to 17 major questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a year\u2019s delay\u2014and a lot of hype\u2014the time has come. TGL<\/a> is finally set to launch. In advance of its live televised debut tonight, here\u2019s what you need to know about the Tiger Woods<\/a> and Rory McIlroy<\/a>-backed indoor golf league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An indoor golf league, eh. So, it\u2019s simulator golf?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partly. The competition will be a hybrid of virtual and real, with players hitting full shots into a 3,392-square-foot screen, some 20 times the size of a standard simulator. But shorter shots will be a different story. From 50 yards and in, players will turn 180 degrees and take aim at a large, synthetic-turf green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a backyard short-game<\/a> facility?
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Far more sophisticated. The green is set on an hydraulic system that allows it to rotate and morph in its topography, so approach angles and breaks will vary from hole to hole. As for those approaches, players will hit them off one of three surfaces: real fairway-length grass; rough-length grass, or actual sand, the same kind as at Augusta National, depending on where their simulated drives wind up.<\/p>\n\n\n

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