{"id":394882,"date":"2022-11-29T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394882"},"modified":"2022-11-29T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T22:34:14","slug":"pga-tour-stars-justin-thomas-and-jon-rahm-will-play-in-tgl","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/pga-tour-stars-justin-thomas-and-jon-rahm-will-play-in-tgl\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour stars Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm will play in TGL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PGA Tour stars Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm followed Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as saying they will play in the TGL, a new tech-infused golf league in partnership with the PGA Tour that will start in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TGL \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinThomas34?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JustinThomas34<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonRahmpga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JonRahmpga<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PGATOUR<\/a> standouts are set to join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TigerWoods?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TigerWoods<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McIlroyRory?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@McIlroyRory<\/a> as part of TGL. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>2024 can&#39;t arrive soon enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UziZvvNV0g\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UziZvvNV0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TGL (@TGL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TGL\/status\/1597334515868999680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJustin and Jon are tremendous additions to join Tiger and Rory as the next PGA TOUR players announced as part of TGL,&#8221; TMRW Sports co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mike McCarley said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both are major champions who have spent time as the number one player in the world and have represented their home countries in golf\u2019s biggest team match-play events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TMRW Sports is a tech-focused company, co-founded by Woods and McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>TGL will showcase team competitions from a custom-built venue fusing advanced tech and live action in primetime on Monday nights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam golf events have always been highlights throughout my career, as the us vs them mentality fuels my competitive spirit,\u201d said Thomas, who is a two-time major champion having won the PGA Championship in both 2017 and 2021.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-sticky-marker-container\">\n<div class=\"ad-sticky-marker\">\u201cAs soon as I learned about TGL, I jumped at the opportunity to be a part of it,\u201d said Rahm, who became the first Spanish golfer to win the U.S. Open with his triumph at Torrey Pines in 2021.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGA Tour stars Justin Thomas and Jon Rahm followed Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as saying they will play in the TGL, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394883,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16987,16988,16985,16962],"news_category":[16713],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"New tech-infused golf league in partnership with the PGA Tour that will start in 2024","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394882"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394882"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}