Amusing Note Emerges Ahead of TGL Debut

The simulator golf league makes its long awaited debut Tuesday night

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The first match of the TGL, the simulator-golf league featuring many of the top players on the PGA Tour, takes place tonight, January 7 on ESPN at 9 p.m. ET.

I, for one, am very excited about its debut. One amusing note: equipment guru Jonathan Wall posted that golfers are toying with different driver specs to maximize distance for the simulator holes. Personally, I’d love to hear a player’s rationale on why it took a simulator league to experiment with gaining distance, one of the most reliable advantages in real golf! It’s not like the TGL golf holes have 1,000-yard wide fairways.

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Relatedly, is there a 14-club maximum rule for how many clubs you can carry in TGL? Whether there is or isn’t, I think I would absolutely carry two drivers if I were participating in this league – one that I can keep under control and one that I can bomb away with.

Equipment tweaks could be an interesting subplot of the TGL action.

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January Club TFE Virtual Hangout

We recently held a TGL hole design contest for our Club TFE members and have compiled an 18-hole course, Club TFE TGL Island. You can play the course on PGA2K23 and watch the video introducing the course here.

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Joseph LaMagna

I grew up playing golf competitively and caddied for ten years. I've also always enjoyed - usually responsibly - betting on sports. These worlds collided when I went to college, where I spent an absurd amount of time watching PGA Tour Live and building models to predict golf.

When I heard Andy on a podcast for the first time, I immediately knew I'd found a voice I wanted to follow. The intersection between design and strategy captivated me, and I've consumed just about every piece of Fried Egg Golf content since then. While I was finishing up my studies at UT-Austin, I worked for 15th Club (now 21st Club), a company that does data consulting for professional golfers. Upon graduation, I started Optimal Approach Golf, which provides data and strategy recommendations to professional and high-level amateur golfers. I've been full-time with Fried Egg Golf since January of 2024.

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