TGL, the golf simulator league co-founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, returns this winter for its third season after a successful inaugural campaign that tested the concept and a second season that add new holes, added gameplay and momentum built up.
The third season of TGL will also see a new team enter the mix, as Motor City GC will be the league’s seventh franchise. On Tuesday, TGL announced the full rosters for its third season, and there were some changes with the introduction of Motor City GC. Previously, teams had four players on a roster, with three participating each week. Now, teams have five players, but only three players will be available for each game at the SoFi Center in Florida.
The third season of TGL saw a few big names exit the simulator league while many new players joined. TGL also completed its first trade on Monday before full rosters were announced for next season.
TGL will return on December 27th. Here are the rosters for each team.
Atlanta Drive
List: Justin Thomas, Billy Horschel, Patrick Cantlay, Chris Gotterup, Michael Brennan
Lucas Glover helped Atlanta win the inaugural SoFi Cup, but will no longer participate in the league in year 3. Gotterup, who won three times on the PGA Tour in 2026 and played in the Presidents Cup, was an alternate for the Drive last season, but will be a full-time player this season. Brennan won the Wyndham Championship and Baycurrent Classic this past season and now joins TGL as the fifth member of the Drive.
The Bay Golf Club
List: Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, Ludvig Aberg, Blades Brown and Ryan Fox
Bay Golf has been one of TGL’s most entertaining teams for the first two seasons, but it will look a little different this year. On Monday, TGL announced that Shane Lowry was traded from Bay Golf Club to Boston Common Golf for the fourth pick in the TGL draft (a draft) and a future pick. With Lowry gone, the Bay Golf Club added Reigning Golfer of the Year Champion Ryan Fox and 19-year-old budding star Blades Brown, who earned his PGA Tour card through the Korn Ferry Tour this past season.
Boston Common Golf
List: Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Keegan Bradley, Hideki Matsuyama and Michael Thorbjornsen
Trade for Lowry was the great addition of Boston for year 3. Adam Scott, who played at Boston Common Golf for the first two seasons, will not participate in Season 3. Thorbjornsen, who won the Rocket Classic this past season, was an alternate for Boston Common last year and will now be a full-time player.
Jupiter Links Golf Club
List: Tiger Woods, Tom Kim, Max Homa, Akshay Bhatia and Keith Mitchell
Woods spent most of the season “coaching” Jupiter Links while recovering from surgeries on his torn Achilles tendon and back. But he returned for the TGL Finalswhere Jupiter Links lost to Los Angeles Golf Club. This brief TGL appearance was Woods’ only competitive stint in 2026 when he stepped away from golf to focus on himself after his DUI arrest in March. Is it It is unclear when Woods will return on the PGA Tour, but as a co-founder, he will (obviously) be part of TGL Season 3.
Woods will return to Jupiter Links with Kim and Homa. They will be joined by Bhatia, who was a substitute last year, and Mitchell, who is new to the league. Kevin Kisner, a founding member of Jupiter Links, no longer plays in TGL.
Los Angeles Golf Club
List: Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose, Collin Morikawa, Sahith Theegala and Ben James
The defending champions will bring back their entire roster of title winners and add one of the PGA Tour’s brightest young stars in James to round out their squad. Fleetwood, Rose and Theegala triumphed over Jupiter Links in the TGL Finals last season while Morikawa dealt with a back injury. James joined the PGA Tour in June after earning his card by finishing first in PGA Tour University.
Motor City Golf Club
List: Brooks Koepka, Jackson Koivun, Si Woo Kim, Jake Knapp and Bud Cauley
Koepka was the first Motor City GC selection in the roster formation process. After other teams used their first-round picks to retain an alternate, Motor City GC chose KoivunThe next big thing in golf, with its second choice. He rounded out the roster for the expansion team with Kim, Knapp and Cauley.
New York Golf Club
Roster: Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler, Cameron Young, Ben Griffin and Alex Fitzpatrick
The biggest name to exit TGL is two-time major champion Xander Schauffele, who is leaving the league after the first two years. Schauffele’s founding partners – Matt Fitzpatrick, Rickie Fowler and Cameron Young – are still at NYGC. They will be joined by Matt’s brother, Alex, and Ben Griffin, who are both new to the simulator league.
Big takeaway
There is a world in which the third season of TGL is where the dome simulator league began to fade away. Initial two-year deals for players and television rights have been lifted and a professional screen golf league could have a short life in the low-attention screen economy.
But that doesn’t seem to be the case for TGL.
TGL and ESPN agree to a new multi-year deal and the addition of young stars like Koivun, Brennan, Thorbjornsen and Brown shows that while TGL might not be for all golf fans, it could be a place for the next generation of golf. Everyone is interested in what the future holds for Koivun, who won in his third pro start and was a Presidents Cup star. Brennan put himself on the Ryder Cup radar and Brown became the youngest ever to earn a PGA Tour card. His interest in TGL shows that there is reason to believe that TGL can continue to build towards a bright future.
It’s obviously fine that you just want to watch Koivun or Brennan or Rory at Augusta, Pebble, St. Andrews or Riviera and do not watch golf on the screen. TGL is not for everyone, nor should it be. But if it’s popular enough among PGA Tour pros and can be interesting and fun for a new demographic of fans that golf is trying to reach — those in Koivun’s age range — then it will be a success. As always, it’s a startup with work to do. But an injection of young talent, roster expansion and a new franchise led by Koepka and Koivun show that TGL’s arrow is still pointed in the right direction.
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