Andrew ‘Chubby’ Chandler has taken a swipe at the new indoor, tech-infused golf league cooked up by his former client and Woods, which enjoyed a successful launch last week

Rory McIlroy has chosen to skip Tiger Woods' highly-anticipated TGL debut in favor of this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic - an event he's already won four times

Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy watched on as the opening match of the inaugural TGL season – the new high-tech indoor golf league attempting to revolutionize golf – took place on Tuesday.

The Golf League launched last month with the likes of Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods taking part but the new competition has failed to impress many in the golf world

He made the first birdie in TGL history. And with that, the indoor golf competition that Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy had envisioned for years was finally underway.

PGA legend Tiger Woods and 4-time major champion Rory McIlroy have created a lot of headlines over their new golf

The Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy-backed TGL has revealed it is planning for expansion and could even look to sign players from the LIV Golf league in the future

Woods' TGL debut was watched by more than 1 million viewers, up 9 percent from the league's first match last week and more head-to-head than the NBA drew on TNT. For the second consecutive week, the TGL produced a one-sided match with Woods' Jupiter Links Golf Club falling 12-1 to the Los Angeles Golf Club.

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