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Mark SchlabachESPN Senior Writer
- Senior assemblage shot writer
- Author of 7 books connected assemblage football
- Graduate of the University of Georgia
A radical of high-profile investors, including NBA prima Stephen Curry, Formula One operator Lewis Hamilton, women's shot subordinate Alex Morgan, Los Angeles Angels All-Star Shohei Ohtani, entertainer Justin Timberlake and tennis prima Serena Williams, are backing Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's caller company, which plans to motorboat a tech-infused play league successful 2024.
At the Tour Championship successful August, Woods and McIlroy announced the enactment of their company, TMRW Sports. The caller league, TGL, volition person players competing connected six three-man teams successful 15 regular-season matches and a playoff starting successful January 2024.
The league volition diagnostic two-hour, 18-hole matches connected a virtual course. The matches volition instrumentality spot successful premier clip connected Monday nights successful a custom-made venue successful a yet-to-be-determined location.
Investors successful the institution besides see NBA players Andre Iguodala, Chris Paul and Jayson Tatum, Buffalo Bills backmost Josh Allen and erstwhile Dallas Cowboys backmost Tony Romo, Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner, Pittsburgh Penguins prima Sidney Crosby and Grand Slam champion Andy Murray.
"Over the past twelvemonth we've assembled a squad of investors who volition assistance present connected the TMRW Sports' ngo to positively interaction however sports are experienced successful the future," TMRW Sports laminitis and CEO Mike McCarley said successful a statement. "And we've been intentional astir diverseness of expertise, thought and backgrounds arsenic we mobilized this strategical group.
"From the precise opening our program has been to spouse with the best-in-class successful each mode imaginable and Tiger, Rory, and I worth the enactment of this unrivaled squad of investors, advisors, and ambassadors who judge successful our imaginativeness to harness exertion to make progressive approaches to sports."
Other investors see Atlanta Falcons proprietor Arthur Blank, Boston Red Sox proprietor John Henry and Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren.
Renderings released successful August by TGL bespeak that the venues volition diagnostic a simulator that players volition deed longer shots into, on with an authentic greenish country for chipping and putting.
The matches volition astir apt beryllium played betwixt January and April, and each of the six teams volition vie 5 times during the 15-week schedule.
McIlroy said Woods, 46, planned to vie successful the matches. Woods played successful lone 3 tournaments past play portion recovering from superior injuries helium suffered successful a car wreck extracurricular Los Angeles successful February 2021.
"Who knows wherever we're going to spot Tiger Woods play play next, right?" McIlroy said. "We don't cognize what his docket is going to be. We don't cognize however his assemblage is going to be. But to beryllium capable to spot him inactive showcase his skills connected premier time, connected TV without truly immoderate deterioration and teardrop connected his body, I deliberation to beryllium capable to spot Tiger deed play shots and inactive benignant of supply radical with a glimpse of his genius -- I deliberation it is simply a truly bully usage of his time."
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