Golf has been around for centuries, but it’s massively contributing to — and suffering from — the ongoing climate crisis.
Now, there may be a way to keep golf alive and make it more fun than it has been for all these centuries.
TGL is a new indoor golf league hosted at Florida’s SoFi Center, where professional players (including co-founder Tiger Woods) hit golf balls at a ~3.4k-square-foot screen, per The Verge.
It’s a more efficient and entertaining version of the classic “good walk spoiled.” You don’t even need to walk!
Purists might argue that this isn’t real golf, but the TGL team doesn’t care.
And it seems to be working, because TGL’s ratings on ESPN are apparently pretty good (though, to be fair, matches happen on Mondays and Tuesdays when there’s not much sports competition).
… to infuse with some fun tech, since it has that nightmarish environmental impact and is (arguably) just so boring — but generally speaking, digitally enhanced sports are definitely the future.
At a certain point, why spend money on a soccer stadium when you can use tech to make an easier, more fun version of the real thing?