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Indoor golf league has loud, fast debut on ESPN

AP photo by Rebecca Blackwell / Shane Lowry, left, and his Bay Golf Club teammates celebrate winning the third hole against New York GC during the inaugural TGL match Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
AP photo by Rebecca Blackwell / Shane Lowry, left, and his Bay Golf Club teammates celebrate winning the third hole against New York GC during the inaugural TGL match Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. AP photo by Rebecca Blackwell / Shane Lowry, left, and his Bay Golf Club teammates celebrate winning the third hole against New York GC during the inaugural TGL match Tuesday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.

By TIM REYNOLDS / The Associated Press 4 min read

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Ludvig Aberg will be the answer to at least one trivia question: He made the first birdie in TGL history.

And with that, the indoor golf league Tiger Woods had envisioned for years was finally underway.

TGL had its debut match Tuesday night, with Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler and Xander Schauffele of New York Golf Club taking on Aberg, Wyndham Clark and Shane Lowry of The Bay Golf Club in the opener. The 15-hole match took just less than two hours, which is exactly how TGL envisioned this to work.

Final score: Bay 9, New York 2.

“The last time I’ve had that much fun was probably last September,” Lowry said, turning toward Clark as he spoke, with the obvious reference being how the Irishman and Sweden’s Aberg were part of the European team that beat Clark and the United States in the Ryder Cup held in the fall of 2023.