SoFi Center rises for Tiger Woods’ interactive golf league
The 1,500-seat SoFi Center will house the TGL interactive golf league founded by Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy. The league is due to launch in January.
PALM BEACH GARDENS – The indoor golf arena rising on the Palm Beach State College campus in Palm Beach Gardens now towers over nearby homes, neighborhood buildings, passing delivery trucks and neighboring trees at around 75 feet tall.
Crews have finished building the SoFi Center’s foundations. And the steel and walls and roof panels are on site. Roof work began this month, and crews are working six days a week for 10 hours per day, said a spokesperson for TGL, the interactive golf league that will call the center home. That league is being led by golf legends Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, who both have homes in the region.
The structure is the second iteration of the arena, once imagined as an inflatable dome. Those original plans were scrapped when blustery weather and a power outage left the nascent dome in tatters. Construction on this steel and concrete arena began March 18 with the exterior due to be complete in early August, the spokesperson said.
The bones of the building — eight white pillars on three sides covered with slats of metal — stand tall over the tightly packed landscape of RCA Boulevard and PBSC’s north county campus.
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About 10 large cranes, dozens of crew members and a few security guards surround the site lined by pine trees.
When the exterior is finished, a team will install technology — which will include a 46-by-64-foot Jumbotron-type screen — in time for a rehearsal in mid-fall. The first match is set to be broadcasted on ESPN on Jan. 7, 2025, during prime time, the spokesperson said.
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Maya Washburn covers northern Palm Beach County for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida-Network. Reach her at mwashburn@pbpost.com. Support local journalism: Subscribe today.
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