LIV Golf podcast hosts Jerry Foltz and Su-Ann Heng have welcomed Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s new golf league TGL, but outlined one concern that could hamper the start-up.

After a year-long delay, the innovative league will finally launch on Tuesday, with New York Golf Club taking on The Bay Golf Club at the SoFi Center in Florida. Whilst McIlroy and Woods will not feature in week one, their debuts will come later this month, as excitement continues to build around the league.

With the excitement though has also come skepticism from some, with the never-seen-before format entering the unknown with simulator golf.

Whilst Woods and McIlroy’s league is exclusive to the PGA Tour, it has received plaudits from LIV staff. Heng and Foltz previewed the launch in their latest “Fairway to Heaven” podcast for the LIV setup and welcomed the formation of a new format in men’s professional golf.

“Any time you have more golf being shown in any capacity I think it is great for the sport,” claimed LIV broadcaster Heng. “It is good, it is how you grow the game. Show more of it, expose people to different versions of it and it is good, nothing bad.” A similar sentiment was shared by former Golf Channel staffer Foltz too.

Keen to see some of his fellow colleagues who have joined the TGL venture do well, the veteran caller added: “It looks pretty cool. I wish them the best because I have a lot of friends who are working for them who used to be Golf Channel people, so I wish them the absolute best. I think it has got potential.”

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With any start-up, however, Foltz did reveal he had one concern. During the two-hour matches, those competing will be mic’d up, with their in-play discussions broadcast across ESPN. The LIV commentator however is concerned that this may not suit some of the players on the roster.

“I don’t have a whole lot of concerns for it except for asking golfers who aren’t natural born entertainers so to speak to be entertainers. I think that is where it could take a while, but I think it has some serious potential.” One man who is excited about the launch is co-founder McIlroy.

The Northern Irishman believes the launch of TGL will help move the sport into the 21st century. “The first thing I would like to have people know is it’s golf, but it’s reimagined, sort of trying to take golf into the 21st century,” McIlroy said We have teams, obviously there’s a lot of technology involved.

“[We’re] trying to bring it into the digital era. A lot of things that we’ve taken from other sports like a shot clock, a timeout, things that you don’t see in regular golf. [We’re] trying to appeal to that bigger sports audience out there.”