American golfer Tiger Woods, winner of 15 ‘majors’, is part of a group of investors that acquired Jupiter Links Golf Club, the sixth and final team of the new virtual golf league TGL, of which he is one to those who advanced together. to Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy.
Tiger, who last season only played in the Genesis Invitational and the Augusta Masters, is also the first player to be confirmed as a member of the team, TGL reported.
The group of investors also includes businessman David Blitzer, whose portfolio includes Spanish football club Alcorcón.
The new league will not have the Spaniard Jon Rahm for its first edition, who announced his resignation last week after not being able to assign the “necessary commitment” to it, despite considering it a good opportunity.
The TGL, which has, in addition to Tiger and McIlroy, Collin Morikawa or Justin Thomas, starts on January 9, and includes a regular season with 15 qualifying matches for a final that will pit the two best teams against each other and one, in the best of three matches.
It is a virtual golf league, in which six teams participate, each with three players (there are four, but one rests every week). It will be played in a stadium, the SoFi Center (Palm Beach State College, Florida) with the presence of an audience, and each player will be filmed on a large screen with a simulation, which will record the supposed path of the ball.
The matches format includes 15 holes, nine of which are ‘alternating shot’ (three against three) and six individual holes ‘one against one’ with each player playing two. One point will be awarded for a hole won and none for a tied hole. Each team will earn 2 units for each final victory.
The best four out of six teams go to the playoffs, with direct elimination semi-finals. The winners will play in the final.
Source: La Verdad
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