WTGL: LPGA Tour star Nelly Korda laments missed op...

LPGA Tour star Nelly Korda has accused TGL organisers of constructing an “unbelievable miss” by selecting to not create a mixed-gender occasion for the indoor golf competitors after saying a separate ladies’s version to run alongside the already established males’s model.

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods have been a part of the group that shaped TGL, which debuted in 2025 with among the greatest stars of the sport taking one another on utilizing a simulator for longer pictures and moveable inexperienced for placing.

It was introduced earlier in January {that a} first ladies’s version of the league can be launched on the finish of 2026, earlier than final week the primary raft of gamers for the competitors have been confirmed.

World No 2 Korda has not but dedicated to the occasion and insists a greater method would have been so as to add feminine gamers to the already established occasion.

Korda informed Golfweek: “I’ve blended emotions on it if I am being very sincere, and I am stunned no different ladies have, or nobody’s actually spoken out about it. I believe it is an enormous and unbelievable ‍miss that we’re not taking part in alongside the lads.

“There isn’t any better strategy to develop the sport, and it will have been revolutionary. It could have been the ‌first time, I believe, that women and men are on the identical taking part in subject, taking part in for the ‌similar precise sum of money. However I additionally assume it is nice that we’re getting this chance, in order that’s my blended emotions.”

Korda is making ready to play within the opening occasion of the LPGA Tour season, Event of Champions, which is dwell on Sky Sports activities from Thursday.

On why she hasn’t dedicated to the WTGL, she added: “I am simply nonetheless weighing out the time dedication. I simply have not ‌actually considered it an excessive amount of, as a result of I have been ⁠actually targeted on making an attempt to prepare for this season. I ‌assume logistically, they’re nonetheless making an attempt to determine some stuff out, so I ‍will simply weigh out my choices within the close to future.”

Hull ‘simply grateful’ for WTGL alternative

Europe’s top-ranked participant, Charley Hull, who has dedicated to play within the inaugural ladies’s occasion, stated she was “simply grateful” that ladies have been being given the chance to function.

“I am simply grateful for them giving us a chance, it doesn’t matter what actually,” the world No 6 stated forward of taking part in alongside Korda in Florida.

“Might be one thing they construct sooner or later, you by no means know. I really feel like them giving us a chance to go on the market on the identical stage as the fellows, though it is not on the similar time, truthful play to them.

“Like I actually respect that. Like thanks. You by no means know, in a few years’ time they might do one thing like that. However like having an LPGA Tour and the PGA Tour and now now we have the Grant Thornton, you by no means know. That is one thing they will most likely construct on.”

Hull was enthused after attending the most recent TGL occasion earlier this week, which noticed McIlroy’s Boston Widespread Golf declare an emphatic win.

“It is tremendous cool,” she added. “I went there on Monday night, and it was like – I watched and I used to be like, wow, that is fairly unbelievable.

“We want one in all them within the UK really when it is chilly. I believed it was so spectacular the way in which that inexperienced moved spherical, how the ball reacted on the inexperienced after I chipped on it, the way it putted, the display screen.

“Actually, I used to be so impressed by it. They’ve executed a fantastic job.”

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