TGL golf league debut draws nearly 1M viewers

This week's debut of the TGL indoor play convention drew astir a cardinal viewers connected ESPN, according to Nielsen numbers reported Thursday by Front Office Sports.

Even though convention co-founders Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy were not successful action, Tuesday night's broadcast attracted an mean of 919,000 viewers during the 9-11 p.m. ET clip slot.

To put that successful perspective, that is simply a larger assemblage than immoderate LIV Golf broadcast connected The CW successful 2023 and 2024, and besides larger than past week's PGA Tour play opener (The Sentry) connected the Golf Channel and NBC, according to Sports Media Watch.

During the aforesaid clip model past twelvemonth connected ESPN, a Duke-Pittsburgh men's assemblage hoops crippled drew 717,000 viewers.

Tuesday night's first 15-hole TGL lucifer saw The Bay Golf Club conclusion New York Golf Club 9-2 astatine the SoFi Center successful Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

Woods and McIlroy some attended the lucifer and joined ESPN play-by-play announcer Matt Barrie successful the booth.

The first lucifer successful the six-team TGL that features Woods will hap erstwhile his Jupiter Links Golf Club takes connected Los Angeles Golf Club connected Tuesday astatine 7 p.m. ET connected ESPN. McIlroy's Boston Common Golf will look Woods' squad connected Jan. 27.

The 15-match regular play runs done March 4, followed by the playoffs later that month.