Tomorrow Golf Leagues launch is experiment with potential to bring sport to new audience

I’m headed to Florida on Tuesday with great curiosity to witness what Rory McIlroy calls “golf reimagined,’’ and Tiger Woods describes as “bringing a new demographic to the game of golf.’’ Rickie Fowler, who’s a multimillionaire with pretty much everything he needs in life except a major championship, is a part of it and he told me he expects to be “nervous, but the kind of anxious nervous, the good kind.’’ What’s all the fuss about? The Tomorrow Golf League (TGL), which begins Tuesday night inside the state-of-the-art, 250,000-square-foot SoFi Center at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. It’s simulator golf on steroids and is being played by some of the biggest names in professional golf that make up the six four-player teams. “If you’re someone that likes golf at all, it’s a golfer’s little playground in there,’’ Fowler said. Tuesday’s inaugural match features the New York Golf Club, comprised of Fowler, two-time 2024 major champion Xander Schauffele, former U.S.Open champion Matthew Fitzpatrick and Westchester native Cameron Young. The New York team is owned by Mets owner Steve Cohen and has other celebrity investors including Eli Manning, Derek Jeter and Jimmy Fallon. Cohen’s New York team takes on the Bay Golf Club, which is comprised of former U.S.

Open champion Wyndham Clark, Min Woo Lee, Ludvig Aberg and former British Open champion Shane Lowry. The match begins at 9 p.m.and will be televised by ESPN. “Since it is so different and it’s the first time, we’re all going to be nervous,’’ Fowler told The Post in a recent interview about the new venture.

“I’m not saying this will be the nerves of a Ryder Cup by any means, but I feel like when you’re out of your element and you’re doing something new it’s just a new type of nervous or anxiousness. “I feel like we’re all learning as we go at the same time, too, because it’s something that’s never been done,’’ Fow...