Billy Horschel says TGL will present a never-before-seen perspective on the sport of golf for followers outdated and new.
TGL begins on January 8 2025 – solely reside on Sky Sports activities – from the custom-built SoFi Middle in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida, and fuses golf know-how and innovation on an unprecedented scale.
Horschel, who’s on the 24-player roster, praised TGL’s creators, TMRW Sports activities, for his or her innovation which he believes will cater to staunch golf followers in addition to these coming to the sport for the primary time.
“For the hardcore golf fan, they are going to enjoy all the numbers and data,” he informed Sky Sports activities. “The launch conditions, how much a ball has spun, how far did it go – they are going to get a kick out of that.
“For me, if I hit a shot and the ball ought to apex round 112 ft, however it solely does 100 and comes up 5 yards brief, I’ll understand it solely went 100 ft within the air and the spin price was too excessive was why it got here up brief.
“Once we throw out numbers like that and focus on them with our team-mates, that’s going to be actually cool.
“It is going to work for everybody. The non-golf fan goes to see one thing completely different, and the hardcore followers are going to get all the info and see the gamers in a distinct gentle.
“It’s a great thing and it’s great that Sky Sports are going to air it in the UK, which has the most knowledgeable golf fans in the world. They are the most knowledgeable, most hardcore, most gritty, and love the game of golf.
“I have been lucky sufficient to expertise that going over there within the final seven years and I hope they get as a lot enjoyment out of TGL as I will enjoying and being part of it.”
The competition features six teams of golf stars in a season-long competition finishing on March 25, where teams will face off in two-hour matches across 15 custom-designed holes in a hybrid of virtual and real-life action, giving fans the opportunity to watch the best players in the world in a new and engaging way.
For Horschel, the cutting-edge platform has laid the foundation for players to go out and entertain golf fans, expanding the reach of the game he loves so dear in the process.
Watch the launch of TGL solely reside on Sky Sports activities Golf from January 8
“What everyone at TGL have created is an unbelievable product,” he added. “They have given everything to be successful, and now it falls on us as players to be the entertainers.
“We’re nonetheless going to be aggressive; we’re nonetheless going to need to win and get the bragging rights, however we have to be entertainers and completely different to what folks see 47 weeks out of the 12 months on the PGA Tour.
“We can show the side that people may not see out on the golf course and show them a little bit more of who we are behind closed doors.
“These little issues go a protracted technique to the golf fan and non-golf fan connecting with this TGL and permitting us to achieve success.”
TGL fuses golf know-how and innovation on an unprecedented scale
He continued: “I’ve been excited about this since they came and spoke to me about this in early 2022. After a very brief conversation I didn’t need to think much more, I said yes right away.
“After I take a look at the sport of golf, I like the sport. I believe it is the best recreation on the earth and it might probably accomplish that many issues for folks, it might probably open doorways, create relationships, help you journey the world.
“Going to a golf course and trying to learn how to play the game is scary for beginners, so trying to put two scary things together doesn’t always match and it can hinder people from wanting to take it up.
“I am excited as a result of this could open one other avenue to getting extra folks concerned within the recreation of golf.”
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