The Women’s TGL (WTGL) league has a fifth team after Fenway Sports Group (FSG) has invested in the league to launch a Boston-based team.
Fenway Sports Group (FSG), majority owners of Liverpool FC and the Boston Red Sox, has invested in Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s Women’s TGL (WTGL).
FSG will acquire a team to compete in the 2026/27 WTGL season, Boston Common Golf, which will become one of the first five inaugural teams to compete in the league, which launched in early 2026.
The deal was secured between FSG, TMRW Sports – co-founded by Woods and McIlroy, and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). FSG is one of six investors in TGL, the men’s version of the indoor tech golf league.
Boston Common Golf joins Atlanta WTGL, Los Angeles Golf Club, Motor City Golf Club, and New York WTGL as the first teams competing in the league’s inaugural season.
Expected to launch in the winter, the 2026/27 season will see matches take place indoors in an arena backed with 360-degree screens that simulate golfers’ tee shots on a simulated green across different holes.
WTGL and TGL are designed to bring golf into the technological age and offer a short-form, digital-first version of golf which is designed for audiences that are digitally native.
The TGL finished its inaugural season in 2025. It was broadcast by ESPN in the US and saw six teams of four PGA golfers compete across six weeks. Atlanta Drive GC were the SoFi Cup Finals winners in March 2025.
Some of TGL and WTGL’s investors include Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Lewis Hamilton, Shohei Ohtani, and Serena Williams.
Mike McCarley, Founder and CEO of TMRW Sports, said: “Fenway Sports Group has been a TMRW Sports partner from the beginning and understands what it takes to build an enduring team brand in one of the world’s most passionate sports markets.
“Boston Common Golf brings an established identity, a passionate fan base and an ownership group with a record of growing iconic sports properties. Adding FSG and Boston Common Golf strengthens WTGL as we build a premier platform for women’s team golf in partnership with the LPGA.”
FSG’s shifting investment focus
The recent further investment in WTGL suggests FSG is diversifying its portfolio of sporting assets further as it is set to offload certain assets.
Along with being the majority owner of Liverpool and the Boston Red Sox, FSG is also an investor in PGA Tour Enterprises and holds a 50% stake in RFK Racing.
Most recently, FSG is close to agreeing to a 30% share sale in Liverpool to a consortium that includes Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos, alongside Amit Bhatia and Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin, in a deal worth £1.4bn.
FSG sold off shares in Liverpool to Dynasty Equity in recent years, while also having brought on investors Red Bird Capital and Arctos Sports Partners in the past as minority shareholders.
If the Bezos-consortium were to buy a share in Liverpool for the reported price, this could see the Premier League club’s valuation grow to £4.6bn. FSG bought Liverpool for $300m in 2010, representing the increase in interest from outside venture capital and investment firms’ interest in English football clubs.
FSG also sold its majority share in the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins in December 2025 to the Hoffman Family for $1.7bn. The firm has owned the team since 2001 and became the majority owner in 2021 after investing $900m in 2021.
Similar to English football clubs, NHL teams have garnered similar investment interest. In 2024, the Arizona Coyotes sold for $1.2bn, while the Tampa Bay Lightning was acquired for $1.8bn.
