Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s digital golf league enjoying for £17m prize fund

The newest is available in the best way of how a lot prize cash can be on supply in the course of the 15-week season, which kicks off in lower than two months on January 9. TMRW Sports CEO – and Woods and McIlroy’s enterprise associate – Mike McCarley mentioned the purse on the Marchand and Ourand Podcast.

“They’re playing for $21 million (£17m), the purse is $9 million (£7.4m) to the winning team, so it’s legit competition,” the TGL boss revealed. “And these guys are among the best guys on the planet.”

The modern league has drawn many comparisons to its rivals over at LIV Golf in latest months, so unsurprisingly the purpose of prize cash is yet one more scorching speaking level. Whilst TGL is unable to match the dizzy heights of LIV’s Saudi riches, there isn’t any doubt the modern setup supplies a hefty bonus for these competing.

Amid the comparisons each McIlroy and Woods have been fast to minimize the similarities to the breakaway league, having each been among the many LIV setup’s greatest critics over the previous 17 months. Distancing the 2 leagues, McIlroy stated: “I feel [TGL] is supposed to be complimentary [to professional golf], this isn’t meant to be disrespectful in any approach.

“Whenever Mike [McCarley] introduced this concept to Tiger and me, one of many first issues we stated is ‘if we’re going to do that we’re going to must associate with the PGA Tour in a roundabout way and make this complimentary’…