PGA Tour star Wyndham Clark backs Nelly Korda over WTGL complaint

Former U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark says there is "no reason" why women shouldn't be included in TGL. 

Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods' indoor golf league recently announced it would introduce a women's competition. 

The WTGL will be played in the same Florida venue and is expected to launch next winter. 

Charley Hull, Lexi Thompson, Lydia Ko, Brooke Henderson and Rose Zhang have already confirmed their involvement. 

Former LPGA Tour star Michelle Wie West, 36, also announced on Monday that she will participate in the inaugural WTGL season. 

But Nelly Korda is yet to commit. In January, the world number two said she was weighing up whether she could fit it into her schedule. 

She also appeared somewhat annoyed at the lack of a mixed gender league. 

"I have mixed feelings on it, and I'm surprised no other girls have spoken out about it," she previously told Golfweek. 

"It's a huge and unbelievable miss that we're not playing alongside the men."

Clark, who plays for The Bay, told reporters after his latest TGL match that he is in favour of seeing men and women play against each other. 

"Yeah, I don't see why not," Clark said. "The Grant Thornton was a blast. 

"I got to play with Lexi [Thompson]. It's really fun seeing their game, how good they are in certain parts of their game, that maybe they excel more than guys, and vice versa.

"It's fun to compete with someone else that you're not used to competing with. At TGL, I think that would be a blast. 

"I think it would be good for the fans. So who knows. I know right now it's just girls versus girls, but yeah, that would be kind of fun. 

"Maybe there's a Bay women's team, and we do some cool stuff. I think that would be great."

What did Nelly Korda say?

Korda told Golfweek at the beginning of the year that not combining the men's and women's competition was a missed opportunity. 

"I have mixed feelings on it, and I'm surprised no other girls have spoken out about it," she said.

"It's a huge and unbelievable miss that we're not playing alongside the men.

"There's no greater way to grow the game, and it would have been revolutionary. 

"It would have been the first time, I think, that men and women are on the same playing field, playing for the same exact amount of money.

"But I also think it's great that we are getting this opportunity, so that's my mixed feelings."

What have TGL said?

Mike McCarley, a former TV executive who founded TGL alongside Woods and McIlroy, said the idea had been discussed. 

"I think that is something that's interesting to us and is interesting to the LPGA and is interesting to a lot of the players we're talking to," said McCarley.

"Right now, we're really focused on building [the TGL] out and providing, frankly, a nice stage and really nice platform to showcase the players and their personalities."