Billy Horschel recalls a certain buzz about the tech-infused indoor TMRW Golf League when it began last year, and there was plenty of curiosity where it would fit into the golf landscape.<\/p>\n
Curiosity has given way to a degree of optimism and a little growth when the second season of TGL begins Sunday.<\/p>\n
The graphics have been upgraded. Spectators in the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, will have ear buds to listen to play banter more easily. Golf course architects \u2014 Jack Nicklaus, Gil Hanse and Beau Welling among them \u2014 are designing holes. And each team will have a signature hole that reflects their city.<\/p>\n
It starts with a rematch of the TGL final last year when Atlanta Drive beat New York in a couple of one-point matches that produced some drama. Horschel is part of Atlanta Drive that will not have Justin Thomas, who is recovering from back injury. And yes, he\u2019s excited.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been on the PGA Tour for 16 years, and I think anyone who\u2019s been on Tour for a while, the monotonous grind of it can sort of wear on you a little bit, not that the fire to compete has dwindled,\u201d Horschel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when you can do something that relights that fire and have that sort of kid-like energy … and that\u2019s what I had, that kid-like energy in this entire TGL (season) because it was something different and something we were all experiencing for the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The six teams remain largely in tact, though Jupiter Links will not have Tiger Woods right away as he recovers from back surgery. He has said he would miss the first part of the season. Detroit will have a franchise that starts in 2027, and there is movement for another team, perhaps to get Scottie Scheffler involved.<\/p>\n
The matches are typically Monday and Tuesday night, though it starts this Sunday (Dec. 28) and the next match involving Rory McIlroy\u2019s Boston Common will be Friday, Jan. 2.<\/p>\n
Scheduling can get tricky. Following the Jan. 2 match, Boston will not play again until Jan. 26, the Monday after McIlroy finishes his two weeks in Dubai as part of the European tour schedule.<\/p>\n
Horschel said it might get even easier \u2014 and perhaps more appealing to players who want to be part of TGL \u2014 when the PGA Tour finishes the overhaul of its schedule.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of changes are coming in \u201927 and may make the scheduling a little bit easier and guys may want to jump on board who had declined,\u201d Horschel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Horschel recalls a certain buzz about the tech-infused indoor TMRW Golf League when it began last year,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-469397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115776270069606017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}