{"id":548402,"date":"2026-01-28T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548402\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:42:09","slug":"unbelievable-miss-that-tgl-did-not-form-coed-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/548402\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Unbelievable miss’ that TGL did not form coed league"},"content":{"rendered":"

TGL, the tech-infused simulator golf league that recently began its second season, has been lauded by pro golfers and fans alike for its innovation and for bringing new fans into the sport.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the league announced it\u2019d\u00a0expand into the women\u2019s game with\u00a0the creation of WTGL<\/a>, set to launch next year. WTGL has already secured commitments from many of the biggest stars in women\u2019s golf, including world No. 1 Jeeno Thitikul, Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko, Rose Zhang, Charley Hull, Brooke Henderson, and Lottie Woad.<\/p>\n

Among the big names that haven\u2019t yet committed to the project is Nelly Korda. On Tuesday, Korda spoke with the media before the LPGA Tour\u2019s season-opening event in Orlando and expressed her \u201cmixed feelings\u201d about WTGL as a product.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have mixed feelings on it if I\u2019m being very honest,\u201d Korda told Golfweek\u2019s Beth Ann Nichols<\/a>, \u201cand I\u2019m surprised no other girls have, or no one\u2019s really spoken out about it. I think it\u2019s a huge and unbelievable miss that we\u2019re not playing alongside the men. There\u2019s no greater way to grow the game, and it would have been revolutionary. It would have been the first time, I think, that men and women are on the same playing field, playing for the same exact amount of money. But I also think it\u2019s great that we are getting this opportunity, so that\u2019s my mixed feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea of a coed form of TGL has been floated since the league\u2019s inception. Mixed-gender green-grass events, like the Grant Thornton Invitational, have been met with widespread praise in the golf community. Fans are eager to see more mixed competitions, and TGL seems like the perfect platform to bring them to life.<\/p>\n

Golf tournaments played on real courses are set up quite differently for men\u2019s and women\u2019s events. Obviously, the men play from tees farther back. But factors like pin position, green speed, and rough thickness also differ depending on whether it\u2019s a men\u2019s or women\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n

Those factors could hypothetically be equalized in a TGL environment, making the value proposition of a coed league all the more appealing. That said, it\u2019s still possible TGL moves in this direction in the future, though nothing is in the works yet.<\/p>\n

As for Nelly Korda, she\u2019s still deciding whether to participate in WTGL. \u201cI\u2019m just still weighing out the time commitment,\u201d she told Golfweek. \u201cI just haven\u2019t really thought about it too much, because I\u2019ve been really focused on trying to get ready for this season. I think logistically, they\u2019re still trying to figure some stuff out, so I will just weigh out my options in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TGL, the tech-infused simulator golf league that recently began its second season, has been lauded by pro golfers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":548403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,2213,62,168725,67,132,68,223570],"class_list":["post-548402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-nelly-korda","tag-sports","tag-tgl","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wtgl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115970896210750907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548402","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=548402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}