Rory McIlroy has chosen to skip Tiger Woods' highly-anticipated TGL debut in favor of this week’s Hero Dubai Desert Classic - an event he's already won four times

Some of golf’s leading players swap the fairways for the virtual world as the high-tech, big-money and much-trumpeted TGL finally launches this week.

Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Links well beaten on TGL debut by Justin Rose’s LA team - Los Angeles cruised to victory at the SoFi Center, with Jupiter Links’ only point of the game coming on the sixth hole.

TGL, the new fast-paced, indoor team competition fronted by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, is finally set to launch - here is all you need to know about it.

Ahead of Tuesday’s opening match, McIlroy described it as “golf, but it’s reimagined, sort of trying to take golf into the 21st century.”

Rose, Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala were too much for Tiger's Jupiter Links GC in Night 2 of the indoor golf league.

The sport of golf hadn't undergone much change, though. There are few things in the sports world like Sunday at Augusta, but golfers are aware that there aren't great ways to improve their game during the Tour season.