With just a single season in the books, the indoor golf league created by legends Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy already is expanding.

TGL announced plans for a new franchise Tuesday, and the league is welcoming Detroit into the fold. TGL announced that the Motor City Golf Club will start play in Season 3 in 2027.

The Detroit ownership group is led by Detroit Lions principal owner Sheila Ford Hamp and her sons Michael Hamp and Peter Hamp. Rob Walton, owner of the Denver Broncos, also is part of the ownership group, as are additional partners from the sports and Detroit community.

Michael and Peter Hamp were early investors in TGL.

“This is a great moment for Detroit sports and a proud moment for me personally,” Michael Hamp, co-owner of Middle West Partners and team governor for Motor City Golf Club, said in a statement. “My grandfather, William Clay Ford Sr., was an avid golfer, and I believe bringing a new format of the game he loved would make him really proud. I’m incredibly grateful for our partners at MGCC.

“It’s an honor to build this team together. Detroit’s fans are the most loyal in sports, and we’re excited to represent our city in TGL and build a team that Detroit fans will be proud to support.”

Other members of the Detroit ownership are Jordan Rose, president and founder of the Rose Law Firm; Kevin Kelleher, also of Middle West Partners; and Jay Farner, former CEO of Rocket Companies.

Player commitments for the Detroit franchise weren’t immediately announced Tuesday.

Season 1 of TGL, played in state-of-the-art, high-tech SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, featured six franchises:

Atlanta Drive Golf Club, Boston Common Golf, Jupiter Links Golf Club, Los Angeles Golf Club, New York Golf Club and The Bay Golf Club. Featured players included Woods, McIlroy, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Hideki Matsuyama, Max Homa, Tom Kim, Collin Morikawa, Rickie Fowler, Xander Schauffele and Ludvig Aberg.

Inaugural franchise owners included Venus and Serena Williams, Stephen Curry, Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, the owners of the Boston Red Sox, and New York Mets owner Steve Cohen.

Each TGL franchise has a four-player roster, with three competing in each match the matches are broken up into sessions of alternate-shot format and head-to-head match play. Players hit tee shots and approach shots into massive simulator screens, while they play their shots around the green, including bunker shots, chips and putts, on a green surface that rotates and adjusts for each hole, depending on the hole’s layout.

The Atlanta Drive, led by Thomas, Cantlay, Billy Horschel and Lucas Glover, won the championship for Season 1 of TGL, which aired its matches on ESPN platforms.

The league debuted in January 2025. Matches, which aired on Mondays and Tuesdays, averaged a little more than 500,000 viewers, modest numbers, though numbers that outpaced the programming in similar time slots on ESPN platforms in 2024.

TGL was created by TMRW Sports, the brainchild of Woods and McIlroy, as well as sports executive Mike McCarley, in partnership with the PGA Tour.

Jason Langwell, who ran the Rocket Classic, Detroit’s PGA Tour stop, from 2019-24, joined TMRW Sports as chief revenue officer in July 2024, shortly after the completion of that year’s Rocket.

“Detroit is a fantastic sports town.

“The city has a championship legacy and Detroit fans are passionate about their teams and they’ll let you know it,” McCarley, CEO of TMRW Sports, said in a statement released on Tuesday.

“The ownership group for Motor City Golf Club will utilize their deep ties to the community, and extensive expertise as NFL team owners to forge a TGL team that embodies Detroit’s culture for sprots and the region’s golf of golf.

“TGL’s inaugural season generated extensive interest in its expansion process and we’re proud to welcome Motor City Golf Club and its ownership group as we build on the league’s continued momentum in the years to come.”

TGL is continuing to explore expansion into additional markets, including possibly Chicago and Dallas.