20 TGL The new TGL high-tech golf simulator league has now progressed from vision to (virtual) reality, with the six teams of PGA Tour pros hitting into a 64-feet tall screen for 15-hole rounds at the purpose-built SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, culminating in a playoff final in late March. Among the stars of the show are the virtual golf holes, created over fantasy environments by golf course architects Beau Welling, Chad Goetz, ASGCA, of Nicklaus Design, and Agustín Pizá, ASGCA. By Design spoke to Goetz and Pizá to gain an insight into their design decisions and early thoughts on how the holes have performed. “The first impression that one can have is that we had no constraints,” says Pizá. “But there are restrictions, not in the imaginary world of the golf setting, but in regard to technology and how the game transitions from the simulator world into the existing green. “We had to design for this one putting surface that can rotate 360 degrees; the outer tongue of the green can also rotate.” For those that have played on a simulator, uphill and downhill shots Designs for the big screen Chad Goetz and Agustin Piza discuss their design decisions for holes that have been played in TGL, golf’s newest competition.
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