The most classic golf movies — think Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, or Tin Cup — all play off the same tension, which is that golf culture, quite apart from the mechanics of the actual game, is fundamentally stuffy. The joke of all of those movies is to envision the preposterous, nearly unimaginable reality of golf that’s fun and enjoyed by the everyman. But what if that weren’t a joke? What if you could have the sport without the ceremony and the pleated khakis and the shushing and the special, soft clapping?

That’s the idea behind Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy’s TMRW Golf League. Golf needs saving from itself. Not from LIV Golf or Saudi money or whatever else kept the blue blazers at the PGA Tour awake at night until they brokered a peace deal with that upstart league. For the sake of posterity, it needs saving from the crushing weight of its own self-importance, from the whispered commentary and endless talk about tradition. That’s what should make the TMRW Golf League seem like a genuinely exciting proposition, even to those who haven’t heard of it.

Woods and McIlroy beta-tested the TGL in a purpose-built facility in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It’s got a giant screen for hitting balls into, like one of those golf simulators rich guys put in their basements. The green is on a turntable that spins around to match whatever hole they’re playing. It looks like something a Bond villain would build if he were really into golf.