June 8 (Reuters) - In a week that has seen a reshaping of golf's landscape a new player emerged on Thursday with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Serena and Venus Williams securing the first franchise in the TGL, the tech-forward team golf league developed by Tiger Woods.
"I knew I wanted to do this team and I knew I wanted to bring Serena in so I was like, babe come on board," Ohanian told Reuters.
Ohanian, Serena and her sister Venus are the first of what will be six team ownership groups that will make up TGL, an innovative, new primetime golf league that fuses technology and live action.
For the Williams sisters, who emerged from the hard-scrabble streets of Compton to reign over the tennis world, TGL will represent another opportunity to give back to their community and open more doors in another sport.
While he is a board member of the Tiger Woods Foundation, Ohanian said golf was not on his radar until Olympia began taking up the sport.
Persons:
Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, Venus Williams, Tiger Woods, LIV, Serena, Ohanian, Venus, Woods, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Williams, Olympia, Steve Keating, Ed Osmond
Organizations:
PGA, of Fame, Los Angeles Golf Club, Reuters, Angel City FC, NFL's Miami Dolphins, Tiger Woods Foundation, Olympia, Thomson
Locations:
Serena, Saudi, Palm Beach , Florida, Compton, Los, Olympia, Toronto