{"id":792924,"date":"2026-10-05T18:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792924\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T18:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:42:08","slug":"rising-star-jackson-koivun-joins-tgl-as-member-of-motor-city-gc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/792924\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising star Jackson Koivun joins TGL as member of Motor City GC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson Koivun already has proven to be among the best at playing golf outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>But can he do it indoors, too? We&#8217;re about to find out.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old rising PGA Tour star is joining the simulator league TGL for its third season, the outfit announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Koivun will join forces with fellow TGL rookie Brooks Koepka on the expansion Motor City GC, which represents Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The Auburn University product burst onto the scene in his first PGA Tour season, winning the 3M Open in July in just his third professional start.<\/p>\n<p>That success earned Koivun a spot on the U.S. Presidents Cup team, where he went 2-0-1 as the Americans earned a comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p>The next TGL season is set to begin Dec. 27 back at the SoFi Dome in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The first season of WTGL, meanwhile, starts Nov. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackson Koivun already has proven to be among the best at playing golf outdoors. But can he do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}