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Florida Dispatch

Arena Roof Collapses Ahead of New Florida ‘Indoor Golf’ League Launch

The league, TGL, started by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, off to shaky start; unclear if damage will delay January launch

By Bryan Gottlieb
SoFi Center Roof Collapses Ahead of New Indoor Golf League Launch

TGL is a new professional golf league combining advanced technology with top players from the PGA Tour for a two-hour weekly competition in prime time. Six teams from six different cities will go head-to-head in a season-long competition at SoFi Center, a first-of-its-kind venue built for golf on the campus of Palm Beach State College. 

— Photo courtesy of Yahoo Sports/by @luckiestgolfer on ‘X’

November 16, 2023

The roof at the still-under-construction SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., the future home of a start-up indoor golf league called TGL started by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, collapsed on Tuesday night after an apparent power failure. Local reports said nobody was injured, but the air-supported dome appears to have sustained significant damage.

"An overnight failure to the temporary power system used during the construction phase caused deflation and damage to the air-supported dome section of the site," the TGL said in a statement via Sports Illustrated’s Bob Harig. "At this time, while we assess the damage, it is too early to determine the impact on our timelines ... no technology was impacted ... work on site is continuing."

The SoFi Center dome is being constructed on the Palm Beach State College campus, encompasses about 250,000 square feet and has a seating capacity for 2,000 people. 

The league, scheduled to debut on Jan. 9 on ESPN, plans to run events throughout the first season on Tuesday evenings on both ESPN and ESPN2. The league will consist of six teams squaring off in “triples” alternate shot matches, singles matches, and closest-to-the-pin competitions during the season. 

The venue will feature a 64-by-46-foot simulator screen for drives and a 97-by-50-yard playing surface where golfers can chip and putt on natural grass with sand bunkers.

Five of the six teams have already been sold to ownership groups, and several marquee names in pro golf — including Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Rickie Fowler and Max Homa — have committed to playing alongside McIlroy and Woods.

It’s not yet clear whether the repairs will delay the start of the league, which was expected to kick off Jan. 9., according to a report on Yahoo Sports.



KEYWORDS: Florida golf roof failure stadiums and arenas

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Bryan Gottlieb is the online editor at Engineering News-Record (ENR).

Gottlieb is a five-time Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award winner with more than a decade of experience covering business, construction, and community issues. He has worked at Adweek, managed a community newsroom in Santa Monica, Calif., and reported on finance, law, and real estate for the San Diego Daily Transcript. He later served as editor-in-chief of the Detroit Metro Times and was managing editor at Roofing Contractor, where he helped shape national industry coverage.

Gottlieb covers breaking news, large-scale infrastructure projects, new products and business.


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