I listened to the NLU podcast yesterday, the bulk of which was discussing a Premier Golf League type concept that has been in the news o. Apparently there is a group out there (I didn’t catch if anyone put a name or or who the leader was) that has significant funding that is looking to pry the best players off the PGA Tour and onto this Premier Golf League.
The concept is a 12, 4-player teams. There will be team owners. Not sure exactly how it would work but I’d imagine there would be some kind of roster management component, which could be interesting. As for tournaments, they are looking at 18 events. The events would be 54 holes of stroke play with no cut. There would be some match play in the final. For the regular events, they would do shotgun starts for the first 2 rounds to shorten the broadcast window. The final round would be split tees.
It is an interesting concept to think about, and a million questions to be asked. This group seems to be quite serious. The NLU guys seemed to like some of the ideas on the surface but that there are a lot of aspects that need to be fleshed out. They were kinda in agreement that the whole thing probably hinges on Tiger since he is the needle, and that it is very unlikely that Tiger would turn his back on the Tour. This PGL is looking to launch in January 2022. This is also when a new PGA Tour broadcast deal would start. It was reported that the deal was done months ago but the Tour hasn’t announced it so that led to some curiosity and eyebrow raising.