Tiger Woods will serve as player-owner for Jupiter Links Golf Club in TGL during inaugural season

Woods has a home in the innovative league he helped develop alongside longtime friend Rory McIlroy

Tiger Woods will serve as owner of Jupiter Links Golf Club in TGL and also play for the organization in the inaugural season of the innovative league he founded with longtime friend and fellow PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy, it was announced on Tuesday. Woods has equity in the team along with investor David Blitzer, a senior executive at Blackstone who owns several professional sports teams.

This news comes on the heels of a Monday press conference introducing the Boston Common team consisting of Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott, Tyrrell Hatton and Keegan Bradley. Jupiter is the sixth and final team in the TGL for its first season, joining Boston, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Los Angeles. So far, the only other player-team relationships that we know of are Justin Thomas on the Atlanta Drive and Collin Morikawa on the L.A. team. 

The tech-infused indoor golf league that McIlroy compared to an NBA courtside experience is scheduled to begin in January and will be televised on ESPN. Depending on whether Woods plays the Hero World Challenge or the PNC Championship over the next few months, January might also be the first time we see Tiger swinging a golf club since he withdrew from the Masters and underwent another foot surgery back in April of this year.