A new professional women's golf league is setting up shop in Palm Beach Gardens, and it's bringing some of the LPGA's biggest names with it. The Women's Team Golf League, known as WTGL, has announced its inaugural season schedule, with five teams of LPGA stars set to begin play on November 8 inside the SoFi Center on the campus of Palm Beach State College.
According to WPBF, the season includes 10 regular-season matches followed by playoffs and a championship series scheduled for December 22 and 23. Matches will air across ESPN, ABC and ION, with some also airing locally on WPBF 25. Fans can register now for ticket presale access beginning Friday, with public sales opening Monday, September 21.
WTGL is positioned as the women's counterpart to TGL, the technology-focused golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, and it aims to showcase women's golf through the same team-based format while bringing top-tier talent to Palm Beach Gardens. The 25 confirmed LPGA players across the league's five teams bring a combined 112 LPGA Tour victories, 15 major championship titles, and 28 Olympic appearances, according to Love Live Golf. Featured names include Lydia Ko, Charley Hull, Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang, and Michelle Wie West, per the Women's Golf Journal.
A Notable Absence From the Inaugural Field
Not every top LPGA player signed on, though. World No. 1 Nelly Korda opted out of WTGL's first season, having previously voiced disappointment that TGL never combined male and female golfers on the same playing field, as reported by bunkered. Korda reportedly expressed mixed feelings earlier in the year about missing what she saw as a potential opportunity for men and women to compete together for equal prize money.
Money and star power outside the fairways are also flowing into the league. Soccer legend Alex Morgan's investment firm, Trybe Ventures, serves as WTGL's lead capital partner, organizing an investor group that includes tennis star Aryna Sabalenka, Olympic hockey gold medalist Hilary Knight, soccer icons Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach, and five WNBA players. Morgan was also an early investor in parent company TMRW Sports.
Same Owners, New League
All five founding WTGL franchises — Atlanta Drive GC, Boston Common Golf, Los Angeles Golf Club, Motor City Golf Club, and New York Golf Club — were purchased by existing TGL men's team ownership groups, according to Front Office Sports. Those owners include Fenway Sports Group, Arthur Blank, Steve Cohen, and Alexis Ohanian. Fenway Sports Group acquired the Boston WTGL franchise in August, marking its first ownership stake in women's professional golf.
Each franchise carries a five-player roster but dresses only three golfers per match, with two-hour broadcasts blending simulator long-game drives with live short-game play inside the arena. The regular season features round-robin play leading into single-elimination semifinals and the best-of-three championship series in December.
Inside the SoFi Center's Tech
Every WTGL match will take place inside the 250,000-square-foot SoFi Center, which features a 64-by-53-foot Full Swing simulator screen — more than 20 times larger than a standard simulator — and a 22,475-square-foot short-game complex built around a rotating green powered by nearly 600 motorized actuators, according to the Coliseum Global Sports Venue Alliance. That green surface can physically alter its terrain topography between holes.
The arena is located on the Palm Beach State College campus. Arena operations and guest services are managed by Oak View Group.
Tiger Woods previously played in a TGL final, as reported by Hoodline.
A Billion-Dollar Bet on Tech Golf
WTGL's launch comes as parent company TMRW Sports — co-founded in 2022 by Woods, McIlroy, and CEO Mike McCarley — was finalizing a funding round in September that values the business at $1 billion, up from $500 million in 2024, according to Yardbarker. Private equity firm Dynasty Equity had co-led prior financing rounds for the company.
WTGL matches will air across ESPN networks and Scripps Sports' ION network, which reaches more than 128 million U.S. households over the air, per Awful Announcing. ESPN and ION will carry the league's broadcasts.
With ticket presale registration opening Friday and public sales following Monday, Palm Beach Gardens residents will soon get their first chance to see whether the league's blend of simulator technology and live short-game drama draws the crowds TMRW Sports is betting on.
