{"id":324201,"date":"2025-12-03T04:15:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324201\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:15:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:15:26","slug":"gil-hanse-joins-tgls-virtual-golf-course-design-team-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/324201\/","title":{"rendered":"Gil Hanse Joins TGL\u2019s Virtual Golf Course Design Team For Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TGL<\/p>\n

Gil Hanse has joined the roster of golf architects for Season 2 of the TGL indoor simulator season. <\/p>\n

TGL presented by SoFi<\/p>\n

Gil Hanse, one of the most admired figures in the modern era of golf course architecture, built his reputation by looking to the past — studying the principles and styles of the Golden Age designers and applying them with a contemporary touch. Hanse has created modern marvels such as Ladera, CapRock Ranch and the Ohoopee Match Club and has undertaken restorations or renovations at 20 of the courses in Golf Digest\u2019s list of the Top 100 courses<\/a> in the U.S., including recent transformations like the revival of A.W. Tillinghast\u2019s Lower Course<\/a> at Baltusrol Golf Club. <\/p>\n

Now Hanse is bringing his creative touch to an entirely different canvas.<\/p>\n

Hanse Golf Course Design has joined the TGL<\/a> indoor simulator league\u2019s team of architects — Beau Welling Design, Piz\u00e1 Golf and Nicklaus Design \u2013 in creating the full catalog of virtual holes for Season 2. It\u2019s an intriguing, and perhaps somewhat unexpected, crossover in the world of golf, with one of the game\u2019s most celebrated architects stepping into a digital world that\u2019s free of earthmoving constraints and construction budgets.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting with a relatively blank slate for TGL has been liberating,\u201d Hanse said. \u201cDesigning holes for TGL has given us an opportunity to step out of our comfort zone and step into other aspects of golf course design in the virtual world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gil Hanse during an event unveiling the new Fields Ranch golf courses at Omni PGA Frisco in Texas. (photo by Darren Carroll\/Getty Images for the PGA of America)<\/p>\n

Getty Images<\/p>\n

For Hanse, the project is an expansion of his architectural curiosity, one that\u2019s seen him retouch classics such as Plainfield, Quaker Ridge, Myopia Hunt Club, Sleepy Hollow, Winged Foot, the Olympic Club, Southern Hills, Oakland Hills, Yale, and more. <\/p>\n

Honoring Golden Age Architecture<\/p>\n

On several of the TGL holes he\u2019s designed, Hanse says the intent was to \u201chonor the concepts, thoughts and styles\u201d of designers such as Tillinghast, Alister MacKenzie and Donald Ross. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be gratifying to see virtual representations of those concepts and theories broadcast, not only on television, but on this huge screen as our designs challenge the best players in the world,\u201d said Hanse. <\/p>\n

The first TGL hole designed by Gil Hanse, Stone & Steeple. <\/p>\n

TGL<\/p>\n

All of TGL\u2019s hole designs are purpose-built for the league\u2019s fast-paced, team match play format and are designed specifically to force risk-reward decisions, heighten scoring volatility, challenge players and amplify in-venue and broadcast energy for fans. They\u2019re principles that align naturally with Hanse\u2019s philosophy. <\/p>\n

The first revealed hole designed by Hanse \u2013 Stone & Steeple \u2013 is a 590-yard par 5 set in a New England landscape that requires players to navigate Sahara-style bunkering reminiscent of his Baltusrol restoration. The approach shots must carry large fairway bunkers to a green that\u2019s guarded on the left by a rock wall. On the other side of the wall \u2013 marked as a penalty area \u2013 is a church steeple and looming graveyard that reminds players that any shots tugged too far to the left is \u201cdead.\u201d<\/p>\n

A graveyard looms immediately left of the green on the par-5 TGL hole designed by Gil Hanse. <\/p>\n

TGL presented by SoFi<\/p>\n

More new holes will be unveiled before and during Season 2<\/a>, which starts Dec. 28 with a finals rematch between Atlanta Drive GC and New York Golf Club. <\/p>\n

TGL\u2019s holes will continue to mix links, canyon, desert and coastal environments, while also introducing new and less common backdrops and locations \u2013 one hole from last season had an active volcanic setting, for example \u2013 far removed from the constraints of green grass golf course construction. Some of the returning holes have been updated using analytics and player feedback. In addition, six returning holes will serve as official \u201cteam holes\u201d for each of the six TGL teams, all having been refreshed with localized backdrops and terrain. <\/p>\n

For Hanse, it\u2019s a unique opportunity to shape land without constraints, moving from a medium of sand and soil to digital renderings and imagination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gil Hanse has joined the roster of golf architects for Season 2 of the TGL indoor simulator season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,182324,182325,755,182326,182327,182329,85,182322,182328,182323],"class_list":{"0":"post-324201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-gil-hanse","11":"tag-gil-hanse-golf-architecture","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-golf-architecture","14":"tag-golf-course-design","15":"tag-simulator-golf-league","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tgl-golf","18":"tag-tgl-season-2","19":"tag-tgl-simulator-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}