Tiger Woods didn’t hide his disdain for LIV Golf with a subtle shot at the golf league on Tuesday.
Woods proclaimed the new team-centric TGL — a league he helped develop alongside Rory McIlroy — is easier to follow than the Saudi-backed LIV.
The TGL will tee off in January and feature six teams that will play in an indoor arena in South Florida and is described as a “modern twist of traditional golf.”
While LIV also features teams, Woods said he was confused by what the league is doing.
“Some of the stuff I’ve seen in LIV … I couldn’t figure out what the hell was going on,” Woods said during a press conference on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. “Here, it’s very simple.”
Woods has not shied away from his criticism of both LIV and the PGA Tour players who jumped ship to join.
LIV attempted to bring Woods into the fold with an offer that was in the $700 to $800 million range, LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman told Fox News in 2022.
Woods turned the offer down and has been one of the PGA’s staunchest supporters.
“The players who have chosen to go to LIV and play there, I disagree with it,” Woods said at the Masters in 2022. “I think that what they’ve done is they’ve turned their back on what has allowed them to get to this position.”
Woods, on Tuesday, was announced as part of the ownership group of the TGL’s sixth and final franchise, Jupiter Links Golf Club, a team he will also play for.
On Monday, while McIlroy promoted the TGL — which has a team led by Mets owner Steve Cohen — during an ownership announcement at Fenway Park, he took a swipe of his own at LIV.
“I don’t want to sit here and talk about LIV, but you could make the argument that they haven’t innovated enough from what traditional golf is or they have innovated too much that they’re not traditional golf,” McIlroy said, according to Sky Sports.
“They’re sort of cut in no man’s land where as [TGL] is so far removed from what we know golf to be.”
The TGL, which debuts on Jan. 9, is a team-based golf league that combines golf simulators with actual shots onto a tech-infused synthetic green that can change contours.
The matches — which last only two hours — will air on ESPN on Mondays and/or Tuesdays until the Masters begins in April.