Indoor Golf League Created by Tiger Woods Provides Tisch Blodgett as Investor
(Bloomberg) — Carolyn Tisch Blodgett, the governor and co-owner of Gotham FC, is investing in one of many groups that’s a part of TGL, a brand new indoor golf league created by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
Tisch Blodgett, whose household personal the New York Giants, will change into a co-owner of the Los Angeles Golf Membership. The TGL tees off in January 2025 with all competitions being performed on the 250,000 square-foot customized constructed Sofi Middle in Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida. The league was initially set to be launched this January, however storms broken the Florida facility.
Tisch Blodgett joins Reddit co-owner Alexis Ohanian, together with Serena and Venus Williams, as buyers in LAGC. Monetary particulars of the deal weren’t disclosed.
A lot of high-profile athletes and buyers are backing the brand new league, together with billionaire Marc Lasry’s Avenue Capital Group and Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry.
TGL plans to play weeknights with two dozen gamers, together with Woods, McIlroy, Collin Morikawa and Justin Thomas, dedicated to play within the league. Gamers will take tee photographs and fairway swings utilizing a golf simulator after which transfer to indoor greens with adaptable bunkers and topographies.
Every group has the problem of making a brand new model that can attempt to resonate with followers, despite the fact that they don’t play within the cities they signify.
“Whether or not you’re constructing a golf group or constructing a soccer membership in 2024, you simply must do it otherwise than the way it was accomplished prior to now.” Ohanian stated in an interview.
LAGC is donating 10% of its income to Maggie Hathaway Golf Course, which is about quarter-hour from the place Venus and Serena Williams grew up in Compton, California, in accordance with Kayla Inexperienced, chief advertising and marketing officer of LAGC.
Inexperienced pitched the thought for the donations after working with Ohanian at Angel Metropolis Soccer Membership. “The entire concept behind it’s you may’t simply airdrop a professional sports activities group right into a market like LA,” Inexperienced stated.
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(A earlier model of this story inaccurately included Jon Rahm as being a part of the TGL.)
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