Eli Manning, Derek Jeter, Jimmy Fallon join TGL New York Golf Club investor group
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Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s unique golf league, TGL, is getting some unique star energy representing the Mountainous Apple.
Cohen Deepest Ventures, the family space of job of Steve Cohen, announced on Thursday that Eli Manning, Derek Jeter, CC Sabathia, Michael Strahan, John McEnroe and Jimmy Fallon have gotten a member of the Recent York Golf Club’s investor community as restricted companions. It’s far principally the latest round of huge names to enroll within the golf upstart that kicks off Jan. 7 in tandem with the initiate of the 2025 FedEx Cup season.
Phrases of the deal had been no longer disclosed.
Cohen, who also owns Main League Baseball’s Recent York Mets, got the rights to the Recent York Golf team supreme September. The team would perhaps be represented in its inaugural season by Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele, Matt Fitzpatrick and Cameron Younger.
“Recent York has the supreme fans within the enviornment, and we now have constructed a team that may set Recent Yorkers proud. We expect about this unique, modern take on the game will charm to feeble and unique golf fans alike,” Cohen advised CNBC in an announcement.
Outmoded Recent York Giants Mighty Bowl-a hit quarterback Manning says he is conscious of firsthand the buzz Recent Yorkers have for sports activities.
“There [have] been hundreds of consuming developments in golf with participation rising on and off the course,” Manning stated in an announcement to CNBC.
TGL is the unique primetime, excessive-tech golf league launched by Woods, McIlroy and former Golf Channel govt Mike McCarley. The league will scheme in partnership with the PGA Tour, which is an investor, and may perhaps need to flee complementary to the Tour time table. ESPN landed the broadcast rights to the league supreme October.
TGL will characteristic Tour gamers split into six groups, competing in two-hour, head-to-head suits in a newly designed facility in Palm Seaside, Florida.
The league modified into once expected to originate in 2024, but the dome being constructed to rental competition collapsed after a energy outage.
Other huge-name customers in TMRW Sports activities, the guardian firm of TGL, embody Nationwide Basketball Association legends Stephen Curry, Shaquille O’Neal and Kevin Durant; MLB superstars Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout; Nationwide Football League quarterback Josh Allen; tennis myth Serena Williams; and Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton.
Outmoded Recent York Yankees star Jeter advised CNBC he modified into once drawn to the funding opportunity because it combines his passion for golf and his like of Recent York.
“I’m taking a glimpse forward to seeing NYGC added to Recent York’s sports activities legacy,” stated Jeter.