The indoor golf arena on PGA Boulevard is about to have its fullest winter yet. WTGL, the new women's team golf league, plays its first match on Sunday, Nov. 8, at SoFi Center in Palm Beach Gardens, and the men's league the arena was built for, TGL, opens its third season on Sunday, Dec. 27. Between the two, there will be league golf in the arena for most of the next three months.

A first: an LPGA league under one roof

WTGL is the women's counterpart to TGL, played in the same tech-heavy format at the same venue. The inaugural season brings 25 LPGA players to Palm Beach Gardens on five teams: Atlanta Drive GC, Boston Common Golf, Los Angeles Golf Club, Motor City Golf Club and New York Golf Club. Each team's ownership group also owns a TGL team, so the club names will be familiar to anyone who has followed the men's league.

The rosters are deep. According to the league's roster announcement, the players include Lydia Ko, who is in the LPGA Hall of Fame, along with Michelle Wie West, Rose Zhang, Lexi Thompson, Charley Hull, Yuka Saso, Brooke Henderson and Jeeno Thitikul. Across the full group, the league counts 112 LPGA wins and 15 major championships.

The opener on Nov. 8 is a coast-versus-coast pairing: Los Angeles, with Wie West and Gaby López, against New York, with Ko and Zhang, at 3 p.m. on ESPN. Motor City makes its debut two nights later on Nov. 10, and ABC carries a Sunday doubleheader on Nov. 29.

How a WTGL match works

Each match is three players against three, and it is designed to finish in about two hours. The five teams play a round robin of 10 regular-season matches, scored two points for a win and one for an overtime loss. The top four go to the playoffs, with semifinals on Dec. 20 and Dec. 21 and a best-of-three final on Dec. 22 and Dec. 23 that crowns the league's first champion.

The format carries over what made TGL a television curiosity: a shot clock that keeps players from lingering, the hammer, which lets a team raise the value of a hole, and microphones on the players. Inside the arena, roughly 1,500 fans sit around a playing surface with a green that rotates and a giant simulator screen for the long shots.

Then the men come back, with a new team

Four days after the WTGL final, TGL returns. The league confirmed on Oct. 1 that Season 3 starts Dec. 27 at SoFi Center, with the full schedule still to be released. This season has seven teams instead of six. Motor City Golf Club, TGL's first expansion team, joins Atlanta Drive, Boston Common, Jupiter Links, Los Angeles, New York and The Bay.

Motor City has been filling its roster in public. Its first signing, announced in August, was Brooks Koepka, the five-time major champion. On Oct. 5 the team added Jackson Koivun, 21, who won the 3M Open this summer in only his third start as a professional and went unbeaten in his Presidents Cup debut. More players are expected in the coming weeks.

Getting in

SoFi Center is at 3160 PGA Blvd., on the Palm Beach State College campus. WTGL tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster for every regular-season match, according to the league. TGL says its own Season 3 schedule and ticket details are coming later this year, with match tickets again sold through Ticketmaster.

Plan the drive before you go. TGL's ticket page says a parking pass is required for any lot on site and must be bought ahead on Ticketmaster; passes are not sold at the Blue Lot, which is about a five-minute walk from the arena. Rideshare is the easy alternative. Accessible spaces are limited and handed out first come, first served.

What it means for the Gardens

When TGL launched, the open question was whether a purpose-built golf arena in north Palm Beach County would be busy enough to matter to the people who live near it. This winter answers part of that. A brand-new professional league chose the same building for its debut, the men's league is growing rather than standing still, and the result is a stretch from early November into the new year when some of the best players in the world are competing on PGA Boulevard, on weeknights and Sundays alike.

For residents, the women's season is the one to circle. It is a first, it is short, and the Nov. 8 opener puts some of the most recognizable names in women's golf in a 1,500-seat room on PGA Boulevard.