World quantity two Nelly Korda has known as the dearth of a blended gender indoor digital league “an unbelievable miss” following the launch of a girls’s competitors backed by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
The WTGL will be held in the same Florida venue as the men’s TGL, which is at the moment halfway via its second season.
Among the world’s finest feminine golfers will compete in a season of staff matchplay within the SoFi Middle in Palm Seashore Gardens, however Korda urged not combining the women and men’s occasions was a missed alternative.
“I’ve blended emotions on it, and I am shocked no different ladies have spoken out about it,” she stated.
“It is an enormous and unbelievable miss that we’re not enjoying alongside the boys.
“There isn’t any higher strategy to develop the sport, and it might have been revolutionary. It will have been the primary time, I believe, that women and men are on the identical enjoying discipline, enjoying for a similar actual sum of money.
“However I additionally assume it is nice that we’re getting this chance, in order that’s my blended emotions.”
The indoor golf set-up options groups of gamers hitting pictures at a five-storey-high simulator display screen earlier than shifting to a short-game space with bunkers and a inexperienced that may rotate 360 levels, creating hole-to-hole variations.
Requested concerning the prospect of a mixed-gender occasion, Mike McCarley, a former TV govt who based the TGL alongside McIlroy and Woods stated the thought had been mentioned.
“I believe that’s one thing that is attention-grabbing to us and is attention-grabbing to the LPGA and is attention-grabbing to a number of the gamers we’re speaking to,” stated McCarley.
“Proper now, we’re actually targeted on constructing (the TGL) out and offering, frankly, a pleasant stage and very nice platform to showcase the gamers and their personalities.”
Korda, 27, is but to decide to getting into the occasion, saying she is “nonetheless weighing out the time dedication” required to play within the event.
World primary Jeeno Thitikul and British golfers Charley Hull and Lottie Woad are among the many gamers confirmed to compete.
Atlanta Drive beat New York GC 4-3 to win the first TGL title last year, with a prize pot of £10.39m being break up between the 2 finalists.
This season’s competition, external started on 28 December, with a best-of-three remaining set to begin on 23 March.
The beginning date and prize pot for the ladies’s competitors is but to be introduced, past it being scheduled to happen in winter 2026-27.
