Billy Horschel moved quickly on social media to shut down talk that a recent run of injuries to star PGA Tour players could be linked to their participation in TGL.
Collin Morikawa was forced out of The Players Championship after just one hole on Thursday after hurting his back on his second tee.
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Ryan French of famed X account @acaseofthegolf1 asked the question that Horschel answered.
“Please stop! TGL had nothing to do with my injury,” Horschel wrote. “And I would suspect nothing to do with the other guys.”
While others on social media suggested the mechanics of playing TGL off unusual surfaces could be a reason, French went to expand that it was more the extra travel and the emphasis on higher swing speeds in the simulator league that could be a factor.
Please stop! TGL had nothing to do with my injury. And I would suspect nothing to do with the other guys https://t.co/tzXLFyFdEKMarch 12, 2026
So could there be a wider point here? As while the individual injuries certainly aren’t linked with purely playing TGL there is the broader aspect of the scheduling and extra travel possibly introducing a risk factor more generally.
TGL is played early in the season when the PGA Tour is out on the West Coast so it can often mean long flights for players finishing tournaments and then heading directly to SoFi Center in Florida.
As Max Homa has himself admitted, the players can swing harder at the ball in TGL chasing speed and distance on the simulator – while Homa along with Tom Kim played a TGL match straight after finishing a round at the Cognizant Classic recently.
All modern PGA Tour pros are on top of their fitness game these days so there’s no doubt they warm up and cool down properly, but could playing 18 holes on the PGA Tour then heading off to go and swing harder in a TGL match open up the possibility of injury?
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