Tiger Woods of america catches a ball on the observe space through the third spherical of the 2023 Masters Match at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership on April 08, 2023 in Augusta, Georgia.
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Intensive harm at a Florida dome venue is doubtlessly an enormous blow to the Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy-backed tech-infused golf league two months out from its launch.
Photographs surfaced earlier this week exhibiting that the air-supported SoFi Heart dome, situated in Palm Seashore Gardens, Florida, had collapsed resulting from an influence outage.
“We’re nonetheless assessing the harm and figuring out the impression on our timelines,” the league, TGL, informed CNBC.
The indoor golf league, which counts the PGA Tour as a associate, is slated to launch on Jan. 9, that includes about two dozen tour golfers. ESPN and ESPN+ are set to point out the matches.
The venue was customized constructed for the league.
The league addressed the collapse earlier this week. “An in a single day failure to the non permanent energy system used through the development part brought on partial deflation and restricted harm to the air-supported dome part of the positioning,” it stated. “The dome part has been additional deflated by our crew and can stay down whereas they work to treatment the state of affairs.”
The roof collapse is yet one more headache for the nascent league. Earlier this month, Jon Rahm, the 2023 Masters winner, abruptly pulled out of TGL.
“Whereas I nonetheless suppose it is an amazing alternative, proper now it could require a degree of dedication that I am unable to supply,” Rahm stated in a put up on X, previously generally known as Twitter.
The TGL developments additionally come because the PGA Tour pursues a controversial enterprise partnership with Saudi-funded rival LIV Golf.
–CNBC’s Jessica Golden contributed to this report.
