Rory McYlroy says he is comfortable with the technology behind the TGL simulator

Pebble Beach, California-you can only imagine how TGL technicians feel when Rory McIlroy entered its 90-minute training session last week with two startup monitors from his personal collection. The four -time main champion and co -founder of TGL had to put his concerns to rest before debuting in the League: Is the simulator for the new closed league indoors?

In a match between Golf Links Golf Links and Los Angeles Golf Club earlier this month, Tiger Woods hit a 101-yard shot 131 yards, his ball scattered in a virtual danger of water over the green. The puzzled gaze of his face told him everything – Woods did not exceed the Greens with 30 yards, and he was not the first or last golf in the first four weeks of the league to stumble from what the screen said his ball had done. That is why Machilroy, before his first TGL match on Monday night, said he had decided to make his diligence.

“So technological and numbers, look, I had the same concerns, I guess just because I obviously didn’t play a match,” McIlroy said on Tuesday on Pebble Beach, where he would make his 2025 debut on the PGA Tour. “I went there on Wednesday and brought with me two more to start. I brought my GC Quad, brought my Trackman. Obviously, hitting balls on the screen and each number was almost identical. This put my worries in bed, which was really good. “

There is a reason for Pros Tour to use portable Trackman and Gcquad launch monitors to anticipate Sports as a pair of touring to detect any point of data you can dream of when it comes to the ball flight. These two products have been tested and tested and are considered The best on the market For the highest level pluses. But Woods, such as Machilroy is a co-founder in the league, has an exclusive perennial partnership with accurate swing simulators, which he signed in 2015. Now the company also produces the best launch monitors-the official official technology monitors TGL partner. It’s just not a Tour Pro average preference.

Therefore, he is simply not McIlroy who has felt the need for cross -view TGL Tech. Sahit Tiegala and his LAGC teammates also brought out various launch monitors during their warming up before the match before the match, apparently to horror the representatives of the full swing. But they thought it was necessary. In order for the TGL product to be successful, players must be confident in the number of play.

It turns out that the discrepancies that fans see in ESPN’s broadcasting may not necessarily be a problem to find a distance, but rather a period of correction of players who hit photos of a giant screen on the arena.

The question of perceiving depth can significantly affect the staff. Taegala said that the T -shirt box forward – which TGL uses for 70 yards for shots and B – can make you feel that you have to attack the shot with a faster path and this can make the ball fly further. Shane Lowi echoed this mood, noting that with a full shot it is difficult to trust that if you start the shot by hitting the left side of the screen, it will not continue to deviate offline after the ball is no longer physically in the air.

“I think the big thing for us is that you hit the screen. Obviously a big screen is, but when you play outside, you have some connection to the goal, right? This is what we grew up is what we know. So when you enter there, it is very difficult or difficult to be like OK, you will strive, you know, in the right half of the screen or the left half of the screen and trust that he will actually do what you want to do, ”McIlroy said.

The pros are adapted to new elements. Bunker photos are another factor – the sand that is reported to be the same used in Augusta National, is supported by grass, not for dirt or gravel. Xander Shafelle said he could feel the difference during the shots of the Green Bunker. The granules also do not retain indoor moisture, so the sand areas are watered before the start of the match. “As we enter there, he starts to dry,” McIlroy said. “So the bunker I hit last night, yes, had the feeling that my club was going through flour instead of sand.”

These speed irregularities are part of the deal-TGL is a new idea, with never seen technology and all those involved in the League experiment as they go. This is no secret. A bit of a Trackman check never hurts.

“Look, these are the things you learn on the move,” Makilroy said. “It’s startup, it’s four weeks.”

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