TGL is a new, hybrid indoor-golf league that is co-founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy will launch Season 2 for 2026 on December 28, 2025, at the SoFi Center on the campus of Palm Beach State College in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Since its debut on Jan. 7, 2025, the league season has been played with a unique format at a unique venue that features an enormous simulator screen with different stations for fairway, rough and sand lies that will be used for shots outside of 50 yards. For wedge shots, short-game shots and putting, players will hit to a physical green complex whose contours can be changed based on the hole being played on the simulated course.
The TGL format is unique to golf, designed to produce excitement and be done in two hours each week.
TGL teams
The league will feature six teams with four players each, and each team will represent a city (Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta and Jupiter).
- Boston Common: Rory McIlroy, Keegan Bradley, Hideki Matsuyama, Adam Scott
- Atlanta Drive: Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, Lucas Glover
- Los Angeles Golf Club: Collin Morikawa, Justin Rose, Sahith Theegala, Tommy Fleetwood
- The Bay Golf Club: Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, Ludvig Aberg, Shane Lowry
- New York Golf Club: Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick, Cameron Young
- Jupiter Links Golf Club: Tiger Woods, Tom Kim, Max Homa, Kevin Kisner
For each match week, a team will pick three players to participate in the match, meaning a player is not especially likely to compete in each match their team plays. The fourth player is not considered an alternate.
The 24 TGL players are: Woods, McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Hideki Matsuyama, Tom Kim, Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Adam Scott, Xander Schauffele, Max Homa, Rickie Fowler, Billy Horschel, Sahith Theegala, Cameron Young, Keegan Bradley and Kevin Kisner.
TGL format
The TGL format is designed to guarantee a two-hour match that will feature player banter and move quickly. The entire match will be 15 holes, split up into two segments.
The first portion of the match is a nine-hole match featuring three-player alternate shot. Each three-person team will play out the hole, with a player who hits the tee shot going first, followed by the selected player who hits the next shot and the third player hitting the third shot, if necessary. If a fourth shot is necessary, then the player who hit the tee shot on that hole will hit, and the lineup will repeat until the ball is holed. The team who completes the hole in the fewest strokes wins that hole.
The second segment of the match features one-on-one match play. Beginning with the 10th hole, each team will select an A, B and C player. The A player on each team will compete against each other on the 10th hole, with the players completing the hole solo. The player with the lowest score on that hole will win the hole. The B players will compete on the 11th hole, and the C players will compete on the 12th hole. Then the cycle will repeat once again until the match is done.
On each shot, there is a 40-second shot clock. A one-stroke penalty is assessed if teams violate the shot clock. They can call timeout to stop the clock.
Each hole is worth 1 point, unless the Hammer is used. Both teams will start a match with three hammers to use in the 15-hole competition. The hammer can be thrown at any time during a hole, including before a new hole starts. When the hammer is thrown before the hole starts, the other team on the receiving end of the hammer must accept it, increasing the point value of that hole from 1 point to 2 points. However, when the hammer is thrown at any other time during a hole, the receiving team has the option to accept it -- and increase the value of the hole by a point -- or decline it, which comes with conceding the hole to the team throwing the hammer for 1 point.
All told, on any given hole, each team can use an available hammer once. That means the maximum point value for any one TGL hole is now three points. Previously, it was conceptually unlimited if the teams continued hammering one another, as there was no limitation on the number of times a hammer could be used.
Originally, the Hammer could be used repeatedly. It changed possession each time it was used.
If the hole is halved, then no points are awarded. The team with the most points at the end of the night wins the match. If the match is tied at the end of 15 holes, there will be an overtime played until a winner is determined in the form of a 3-on-3 closest-to-the-pin competition.
The winning team for the night will earn 2 points in the season-long standings. If a team loses in overtime, they'll earn 1 point. If a team loses in regulation, they earn 0 points.
The top four teams will qualify for the playoffs, and they'll enter a bracket-style competition to determine a champion. The championship match will be a best-of-three competition, meaning there will be as many as three episodes of matches featuring the two finalists.
