Holey Moley! Look what Tiger and Rory are cooking up!
On top of all the sweeping changes coming to the PGA Tour, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods, the two major spokesmen for the PGA Tour, have apparently come up with some super-duper high-tech infused proposed stadium setting for PGA Tour stars.
It could be coming to some sort of stadium setting (Monster Trucks afterward?).
So the Tiger-Rory League will feature teams (take that Greg Norman) made of three Tour players per team, six teams that will compete in made-for-television events that combine virtual tech and greens complexes at a venue to be custom built for said competition.
These events will being in January, 2024 (no, they won’t compete against Monday Night Football), with 15 slated regular season matches.
This idea didn’t happen overnight.
“We’ve been working on this for two years,” McIlroy explained. “I think it’s a great opportunity for PGA Tour players to show a different side of themselves, primetime on Monday night. I think it’s great for brand exposure to try to engage a different audience.”
The location is yet to be determined. The arena is proposed to be about three-quarters the size of a football field with adjustable green complexes that can be configured based on a specific hole. The stage area will also include an oversized launch monitor for full shots along with displays for different kinds of data, like ShotLink and shot tracking.
These events are supposed to be a compliment to the PGA Tour schedule.
Paula Reto Leads Women’s Canadian Open:
South Africa’s Paula Reto shot a career-low 62 on Thursday at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club and it was good for the first round lead at the Women’s Canadian Open.
Reto, ranked No. 142 in the world and looking for her first LPGA Tour victory, had a perfect, bogey-free card with nine birdies, nine pars. She was two in front of South Korean rookie Narin An. An fashioned a seven-under par 64. Ranked 53rd in the world rankings, like Reto, she’s in search of that first win.
This week marked the return of Danielle Kang. She shot a four-under par 67 and was tied for 16th with some other familiar names — Jennifer Kupcho and the Korda sisters — Nelly and Jessica.
Defending champion Jin Young Ko’s 68 had her tied for 30th.
Canizares, Lawrence Shoot 62s At Omega European Masters:
It’s been tough going for Alejandro Canizares on the DP World Tour this year but he found some lost magic Thursday at the Crans-sur-Montana Golf Club and his eight-under par 62 earned him the first round co-lead with South Africa’s Thirston Lawrence.
Canizares best finish this season on the DP World Tour was a tie for 42nd in Catalunya. But on Thursday, nine birdies against a single bogey put some life back in his game.
Lawrence, who started from the 10th tee, made six birdies before closing his round with a pitch-in eagle.
Four-time DP World Tour winner Matt Wallace was in a tie for third on six under after his 64, alongside fellow early starters Louis de Jager and Eduardo de la Riva, as they made the most of favorable morning conditions. In the afternoon, Scott Jamieson added his name to the list at six-under.
Defending champion Rasmus Hojgaard, fired a five-under par 65 to put himself in the mix.
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baxter cepeda
Oh I hadn’t heard some of those details.
Wondering where we when these Monday’s will be.
In the same city after pga tour events. Or the new city they are about to play? Or a totally different city?
Whatever they do I like this as a compliment.
I don’t know about all these other big changes which kinda make it seem the pga tour is losing its way.
Tom Edrington
Baxter — as we all know, the world is constantly changing and it goes for the sports world as well. All my youth coaches in our days at Quantico were Marines and the Corps mantra is “adapt, improvise” when things aren’t working as planned…..it goes that way in combat — kinda like Murphy’s Rules Of Combat, one of them says: “Every battle plan goes out the window when real bullets start flying” or something to that effect; There’s a lot to absorb with the changes, I know you dislike Monahan but these changes have been talked about, behind closed doors long before Tiger’s summit…they start for the 2024 season and the schedule will look very different. As for Tiger and Rory’s deal, those will probably be in January of 2024 as well, they won’t go up against football in the fall which means if they do it in the fall, it might be on Tuesday nights but would have to be in close proximity to some tournaments. People who laugh at it probably don’t remember a lot of stuff that used to go on in the “Silly Season” back in the day.