Billy Horschel believes PGA Tour stars will be able to showcase “how good they are” with exciting new changes to TGL ahead of the new season, live on Sky Sports.Horschel features for defending champions Atlanta Drive GC in the tech-infused team league, where PGA Tour players compete inside a purpose-built indoor venue that blends virtual and real-time golf.
Matches were played on a mix of virtual links, canyon, desert and coastal holes during the inaugural season, replicating those traditionally used in conventional golf, but this year’s edition will include a catalogue of new and unorthodox hole designs.
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Renowned golf course architect Gil Hanse has been brought in to support groups designing the new holes and said they will “step out of our comfort zone”, which Horschel believes could result in video game-style golf being brought into real life.”I understand why we really didn’t want to go down that route yet, but we’re doing that in season two, creating some holes that are maybe a little bit unrealistic in sense of the regular golf world,” Horschel told the Sky Sports Golf podcast.
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“There was going to be a stigma that TGL was just this high-tech golf league, that guys didn’t really care and they were going to be gimmicky holes, so we wanted to show that it still had a lot of the similar forms of golf and style of golf that we play out on real grass.
“We created a lot of traditional golf holes but now we have created some holes that are going to showcase our shot-making ability, showcase who we are as players a little bit and how good we are.”
Several new holes have backdrops and locations…
2025-12-26 07:00:00
