The Bay Golf Club - The Steph Curry-Owned TGL Team
All you need to know about The Bay Golf Club, the TGL team containing a former US Open and an Open champion and part-owned by three-time NBA champion Steph Curry
Initianally just know as TGL San Francisco before being rebranded as The Bay Golf Club - it was the fifth golf club to be revealed by Tiger Woods and Rory Mcilroy's new tech-rich league ahead of its inaugural season which begins in January 2025.
Set to be broadcast on ESPN, TGL is a team-golf matchplay event featuring 24 of the world's best PGA Tour players inside a purpose-built arena in Palm Beach, Florida, partly on a simulator and partly on a real short game area and adaptable putting green.
Six teams of four players are set to battle it out in TGL's unique matchplay format, so the Sunset City outfit will play against the other five sides once in separate regular-season matches, with the top four qualifying for the post-season semi-finals and a final championship series.
The team has two Major champions in it - with former US Open winner Wyndham Clark joined by Open winner Shane Lowry. The team's completed with the exciting duo of Min Woo Lee and Ludvig Aberg.
Joining the other five sides competing across 15 made-for-primetime-TV matches in the 2025 TGL schedule, The Bay has labelled the city it is based out of as a place that features "warriors of innovation and social change."
The north-west Californian club later went on to state it is "ripe to climb leaderboards steeper than Bradford Street" - in reference to its world-famous sheer scenery.
The Bay continued in it's announcement release: "From The Olympic Club to TPC Harding Park, this city is no stranger to hoisting championship trophies. Let’s bring the next one home."
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Welcome to the league! Our fifth team ownership group, led by Marc Lasry’s Avenue Sports Fund and @StephenCurry30, will represent San Francisco. @NBA stars @andre Iguodala and @KlayThompson are also part of the ownership group: https://t.co/YAh0L2BKSK pic.twitter.com/CDwYBbezL8October 19, 2023
The Bay Golf Club Players
- Shane Lowry
- Wyndham Clark
- Ludvig Aberg
- Min Woo Lee
Who owns The Bay Golf Club TGL team?
As well as a stacked playing roster, The Bay can boast a seriously impressive ownership group - especially if you're also a fan of the NBA. The teams was purchased by former Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry's Avenue Sports Fund and NBA superstar Stephen Curry.
After buying the Bucks' franchise for $550 million in 2014, Lasry oversaw the building of a new arena while Milwaukee also won an NBA Championship during his tenure - helped by the generational talent of Giannis Antetokounmpo, who is now a part-owner of LAGC along with his brothers. Nine years later, Lasry sold his stake in the Bucks for £3.5 billion.
Speaking to CNBC at the time, Lasry revealed a wide ballpark figure as to how much he bought the fifth TGL club for. Retaining a local flavor among the rest of the ownership group, Curry's fellow Golden State Warriors Andre Iguodala and Klay Thompson are also on board.
“Avenue is thrilled to be working with Stephen Curry, in partnership with TMRW Sports as a founding TGL team,” Mr. Lasry said. “Our ownership group is excited to become stewards of TGL San Francisco and to represent Northern California, which is the centre of tech innovation and is a perfect location for a TGL team in this extraordinary new sports league.
“As we move towards the launch of TGL’s inaugural season in January 2024, TGL San Francisco will be focused on developing an extraordinary team of talented players and we are excited to have Andre and Klay as part of our amazing ownership group.”
Jonny Leighfield is our Staff News Writer who joined Golf Monthly just in time for the 2023 Solheim Cup and Ryder Cup. He graduated from the University of Brighton with a degree in Sport Journalism in 2017 and spent almost five years as the sole sports reporter at his local newspaper. During his time with Golf Monthly, Jonny has interviewed several stars of the game, including Robert MacIntyre, Ian Poulter, Lee Westwood, and Joaquin Niemann. An improving golfer himself, Jonny enjoys learning as much about the game as he can and recently reached his Handicap goal of 18 for the first time. He attended both the 150th and 151st Open Championships and dreams of attending The Masters one day.
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