Tiger Woods will be fielding a golf team come January, according to Front Office Sports. Along with David Blitzer, who has stakes in a variety of professional sports clubs in the US and Europe, Woods is founding a franchise – the last of six – in the new TGL league, which every year will be presenting a season’s worth of competition between teams of PGA Tour players at the SoFi Center, on the campus of Palm Beach State College, Florida. The matches, says TGL’s website, will combine “virtual and real-life elements” and be aired on ESPN and ESPN+.
Woods’s team will be called Jupiter Links and have him as a player, with other players to be announced. The other teams are Atlanta Drive (Thomas, Cantlay, Horschel, Glover), Boston Common (McIlroy, Scott, Hatton, Bradley), Los Angeles (Morikawa, others to be announced), New York (players to be announced) and San Francisco (players to be announced).
Among the other team owners are Arthur Blank (owner of the Atlanta Falcons), Steve Cohen (owner of the New York Mets), Fenway Sports Group, Marc Lasry (former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks), Stephen Curry, and Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian (co-founder of Reddit).
