For those who think golf needs longer off -season, TGL could be the ticket.
The High-Tech Indoor Golf League ended its inaugural season last week with Billy outside the Putt heard “around the Sofi Center To lead Atlanta Drive to the title on New York.
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And now it disappears for nine months.
Mike McCarley, the co-founder of TMRW Sports with Tiger Woods and Rory McILroy, started taking notes even before the start of the season on what can be improved for 2026, whether it is technology or that players connect with their city (native of San Diego, Xander Schauffele plays for New York).
The average rating on ESPN platforms was just over 500,000 viewers. TMRW Sports pushes this number of more than 850,000 using a Nielsen Big Data +panel, which includes smart televisions as well as cable cars.
The number that stood out in McCarley was an observation audience of 12 years younger (52 median years) than traditional golf course, dragging only the NBA.
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There were also intangible active ingredients, like the Joy out ofchel and the owner of Atlanta Drive, Arthur Blank, showed when they won.
“I visited the changing rooms of the teams who won and lost. Hearing them about what they should do differently next year was significant,” said McCarley.
This told him that the players joined him, even if there were moments of struggle (Woods mistaken about the 100 -meter foot film, one of the Shanks of Kevin Kisner).
“They began to understand the insufficient assignments and successors, part of the strategy and rules, such as the hammer,” he said.
TMRW Sports is already working with ESPN on a calendar for 2026, although it probably returns to the January-March window. Expansion is a strong possibility. A group is already planning to bid for a deductible in Dallas and has put the total investment at $ 77 million.
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McCarley said that the six original teams – Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Jupiter – come back with little, if not, lists. As for more teams for 2026?
“There was a ton of interest during a season,” he said.
McCarley said that at least one potential expansion group had been in every game, most of the football -cricket franchises.
He also said that TMRW Sports explores sites for a potential arena on the west coast, which could help travel. It is in the early stages and more than a year if it happens.
And if the team’s concept is supposed to work, the Atlanta Drive Club de Outchel, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas and Lucas Glover get rings?
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Masters upgrade
For those who cannot have enough masters, Augusta National offers more coverage than ever this year, especially outside the strings.
The broadcast will receive five overtime-two hours on weekends (from noon to 2 p.m.) on the CBS Paramount +streaming platform, and starting an hour earlier than normal (2 p.m.) for Sunday.
But it’s just a start. Masters.com and the Masters application offers live streaming of broadcasting, star cover, monitoring of interactive players of each plan on each hole.
This feature also includes the practice. From Monday, users will have access to live data and recorded on each plane of each player during their range sessions throughout the tournament. The details will include the distance, the transport, the speed, the suspended time, the height, the curve and the wind.
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Each individual plan will provide a 3D tracing, and a complete dispersion diagram for each player will be available from each day of their range sessions.
This year, the live video of HRD is also new for all live flows for those with compatible devices, designed to improve color. It will also be available on the videos “Each time, each hole”.
For golf, it is technology unlike others.
The $ 100 million man
Rory McILroy joined to equalize for fifth at the Houston Open and, in doing so, has taken an important stage of the PGA Tour which previously belonged to Tiger Woods: the man of $ 100 million.
McILroy won $ 337,844 at the Houston Open, bringing his career earnings to $ 100,046,906.
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Woods, which probably left the rest of the year with an Achilles Rumped tendon, is $ 120,999,166. He directed the PGA Tour in career gains for 25 years, after reaching first place after the Buick Invitational 2000 in Torrey Pines with a finalist.
At the time, Woods had only played 73 times on the PGA Tour. He crossed the $ 100 million mark in September 2012.
Given the current price of prices – and the state of the health of Woods – McILroy could exceed wood in n ° 1 in career gains before being 40 years old.
Of course, this assumes that Scottie Scheffler does not happen first. Scheffler, in his sixth season on the PGA Tour, is already n ° 5 on the list with $ 75,134,784. He comes from a year in which he won just under 30 million dollars.
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Among players under 40, the next list would be Jordan Spieth (n ° 10) at $ 63,562,963.
Masters Trivia Time
Which country outside the United States has the most players in the masters? Australia, Canada, England, South Korea or Spain? (Answer below)
Increasingly increasing
The national amateur of Augusta’s women begins Thursday with a solid terrain highlighted by a pair of seminoles by Florida State.
One of them is Lottie Woad in England, who will try to become the first consecutive winner of the ANWA. She won last year with a Birdie putt on the 18th hole in Augusta National, which helped her transport it to No. 1 in the amateur classification of women.
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Woad may not be the best player of his Florida State team at the moment. Mirabel Ting in Malaysia comes from his fifth victory in college this season during the Florida State match. Ting won five of its six university departures and is n ° 3 in the amateur ranking.
Woad was not too shabby. In eight university departures, Woad won, lost in the playoffs and did not finish with the Top three.
“Lottie has an exceptional year,” said Florida state coach Amy Bond, in Golfchannel.com. “But Mirabel has the season of a lifetime.”
Divots
The Masters field is currently made up of 48 Americans and 48 players from a record in 26 countries and territories. … Min Woo Lee became the fifth winner of the PGA Tour this year up to 14 tournaments. … Keith Waters retired in July as the oldest manager of the European tour. Waters, 67, spent 17 years as a player and 30 as a administrator, especially as the chief of the farm. He has been a member of the board of directors of the official classification of world golf course since 2004. … The winner of Houston Open Min Woo Lee and Sister Minjee Lee became the third set of brothers and sisters with victories on the PGA Tour and the LPGA tour. The others are Bill Kratzert and Cathy Gerring, and Jackie and Jim Gallagher Jr. … The longtime golf instructor Charlie Epps in Houston, whose students include Angel Cabrera, recently had 80 years and said as he could, “I was never 80 years ago.”
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Weekly statistics
The Masters has 96 players who should compete, its biggest field since 97 players in 2015.
Response from anecdotes
England with six: Laurie Canter, Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood, Tyrrell Hatton, Aaron Rai and Danny Willett.
Last word
“When you have a child dream and you have a chance, there are a lot of emotions on every time. I mean, I tear right now.” – Ben Griffin trying to enter the masters by the top 50 of the world ranking. He finished at n ° 51.
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