Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy ‘cash’ accusation fired over new PGA Tour enterprise
A brand new technology-led workforce golf competitors that’s backed by the PGA Tour has been met with scepticism by rival LIV golfers, with one suggesting that it has solely been created to maintain part-owners Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy blissful after each gamers handed up the chance to affix the Saudi-backed breakaway tour.
The inaugural TGL season will get underway in January 2024, with a number of the greatest names from the PGA Tour already signed as much as compete in a mid-week workforce format 15-match common season adopted by semifinals and finals matches.
The competitors will probably be staged in a purpose-built 2,000-capacity indoor venue, with the motion going down on an enormous state-of-the-art {golfing} simulator and specifically designed chipping space.
Woods and McIlroy will probably be joined by a clutch of Ryder Cup stars together with Jon Rahm, Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose, Adam Scott, Xander Schauffele, Shane Lowry and Rickie Fowler.
Organisers of the TGL are promising to present golf followers a “high-tech, high energy” expertise, gamers on the Private Investment Fund (PIF)-backed LIV Golf league are mentioned to be rolling their eyes on the announcement.
According to the Telegraph, one LIV participant mentioned: “Will you be turning in on a Tuesday night to watch guys hitting it into a screen? It’s a blatant fop to Tiger and Rory to keep them onside and earn them millions of guess what, ‘guaranteed money’.”
British LIV golf star Ian Poulter took a more philosophical view on the idea and appears to view it as a back-handed compliment to the concept of the team golf played on the LIV tour.
Poulter told the Telegraph: “Everyone – big businesses, celebrities, sports stars – suddenly want to get in with team sports. Look at Wrexham [Football Club] with those Hollywood actors and other superstars at other teams, clubs and franchises.”
Referencing McIlroy’s decision to invest in the Alpine motor racing team alongside Anthony Joshua and Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold, Poulter added: “Look at the news in F1. It’s not just the potential profit margin, it’s being involved and the fun to be had. It’s a win, win. Everyone wants a bit and I think LIV has been a leader in this, yeah. Definitely in golf.”
The TGL will probably be broadcast stay on ESPN within the US each Monday from January subsequent 12 months from the purpose-built SoFi Center in Florida.
Woods and McIlory each turned down big monetary gives to affix LIV golf 18 months in the past, preferring to remain loyal to the PGA Tour, however the two waring outfits have since announed that they are going to work alongside one another in a ‘framework settlement’.
Meanwhile, McIlroy has been discussing his dream of someday investing in Manchester United.
He mentioned: “Sports team ownership used to be limited to private equity, and people who had a ton of money. But now sports stars are becoming more savvy and using their money in the right way.
“I might love to have the ability to personal a tiny proportion of the membership I grew up cheering on as a boy. I might have cherished to have taken 0.00001 per cent of Manchester United when Jim Ratcliffe took 25 per cent. And if one other alternative comes my method I’ll take a look at it. But it isn’t one thing that has come throughout our desk as of but.”