TMRW Sports, the tech-focused sports, media, and entertainment venture headed by golf icons Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, has revealed US businessman Arthur M. Blank as the first team owner in WTGL, the upcoming women’s edition of its tech-focused TGL golf competition.
Blank will own the Atlanta Drive GC franchise, already a fixture in TGL, which will be operated by his AMB Sports + Entertainment investment vehicle.
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This is the first franchise announcement for WTGL since the concept was revealed in partnership with the Ladies Professional Golf Association in early January.
At the time of his first investment into TGL back in August 2023, TMRW Sports co-founder and chief executive Mike McCarley said: “Arthur Blank is known as one of the best consumer-focused American businessmen of the last half-century.”
Now, with this latest move, McCarley comments: “As WTGL begins to take shape, adding sports leaders like Arthur Blank and the experienced team at AMB Sports and Entertainment is another substantive step in building a premier platform for women’s team golf.
“Partners like Mr. Blank recognize the opportunities women’s sports represent in the modern landscape and specifically the growth opportunity for women’s golf.”
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By GlobalDataBlank added: “The growth of women’s sports over the past few years has been remarkable, and as we’ve seen through our other golf properties, women and girls are participating in the game at a higher rate than ever before.
"We are excited to provide a platform for the top golfers in the women’s game to showcase their talent and personalities while competing for championships for Atlanta.”
Atlanta Drive won the inaugural SoFi Cup (TGL’s championship) in 2025.
WTGL will launch in late 2026 and feature teams of LPGA Tour players competing across a season of team match play from the SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
In WTGL, teams of players will hit shots at a five-storey-high simulator screen before moving to a green that can rotate 360 degrees, creating hole-to-hole variations.
The inaugural men's TGL season was held in 2025, with the second season getting underway on December 28. The campaign will end with a best-of-three final on March 23.
This is the latest significant investment in women’s sports from Blank, who in November 2025 was awarded the rights to an expansion franchise in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), reportedly paying a record expansion fee of $165 million in the process.
Through AMB Sports + Entertainment, Blank also owns the Atlanta United Major League Soccer franchise, the Atlanta Falcons National Football League side, and operates the 71,000-capacity Mercedes-Benz stadium in which both teams play.
WTGL has already received strong commercial interest, with a consortium led by Trybe Ventures, the venture capital fund led by US women’s soccer star Alex Morgan, investing in the competition in January.
Trybe leads an investment group that has taken a stake in WTGL that includes several prominent investment executives, including Linnea Roberts (GingerBread Capital founder), Jenny Just (PEAK6 Investments co-founder), Susan Lyne (BBG Ventures co-founder), Jen Mackesy (minority investor in soccer’s Chelsea FC, Gotham FC), and Ellie Rubenstein (Manna Tree co-founder).
