Reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark and Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg headline the roster of the Bay Golf Membership, the California-based group in TGL introduced by SoFi, the tech-infused golf league being fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
The Bay Golf Membership’s roster additionally contains Eire’s Shane Lowry, the 2019 Open Championship winner, and Australia’s Min Woo Lee.
“It is form of cool having a world group,” Clark, who’s American, advised ESPN. “All of us get alongside. We have had dinner collectively, and I am pals with Shane and Min Woo and attending to know Ludvig higher. I really feel assured about our group, and it will be enjoyable.”
TGL’s inaugural season will tee off Jan. 7, 2025, in prime time on ESPN and ESPN+. The six-team league was scheduled to start play Jan. 9, 2024, however the launch was delayed after a storm knocked out electrical energy to the momentary energy system and backup system on the SoFi Heart in Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida, inflicting the dome to deflate and be broken.
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The league is developing a 250,000-square-foot steel-supported construction.
“I really feel extra assured in regards to the league,” Clark stated. “I believe it was most likely an excellent factor that there was a delay in beginning, so they might be certain all the things was proper from the beginning. I am excited and looking out ahead to seeing what it seems to be like. I believe quite a lot of us gamers, there’s a few of the unknown, however what we do know is the folks behind it are fairly highly effective folks.”
Former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry’s Avenue Sports activities Fund owns the Bay Golf Membership, together with co-owners Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala. English footballer John Stones, Components 1 driver Alex Albon and Olympic surfers Leonardo Fioravanti and Kanoa Igarashi are additionally minority house owners.
