PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The talk of the SoFi Center, home venue for the new TGL indoor golf league, is the massive five-story-high screen. It’s so vast you can almost lose yourself in its picturesque views of virtual verdant hillsides, fairways along virtual oceans, and drive-swallowing virtual canyons. You step into the SoFi Center, and all you want to do is stare at that screen … and maybe take a few cuts at it, too.

The putting green complex is equally impressive, a real-world application of synthetic grass, Augusta National-level bunker sand, and hydraulic technology that collectively looks and feels like it was carved right off of a country club’s tournament course.

It’s all fascinating to the point of almost uncanny reality. The tee boxes are actual grass, the green complex feels like an undulating fringe. From a technology standpoint, TGL has already won the match. The tech underpinnings of TGL are as impressive as anything ever seen in golf history.

But here’s a little secret about technology: Tech alone will draw curious eyeballs, but there has to be a human component to keep you coming back. And that’s where TGL’s challenge lies: not in building a hyper-realistic golf arena, but in ensuring that the pros who play it can connect with the fans who are watching it all happen.

Billy Horschel, the 2014 Tour Championship winner and member of TGL’s Atlanta Drive GC, understands the assignment. “If the players are not entertaining and the players are not engaging, if they’re not talking and dissecting stuff … it’s not going to be successful,” he said last month at a TGL media day. “We have to be entertainers. We have to take ourselves away a little bit from what we are at PGA Tour tournaments inside the ropes and we have to be different.”

(If you want to take a deeper dive into what exactly TGL is and how it will work, we got you covered right here.)

That’s the key, and that’s the challenge of TGL: to get players to do something that’s normally foreign to them, stepping outside their own skulls. Golf is a sport played between the ears, and every instinct of every great player is to narrow their focus down to the tiny ball in front of them. That focus is what helps them win majors and millions of dollars. But that focus also shuts out the fans … and fans are what TGL (and golf in general) desperately need right now.

Fans crave authenticity, or at least relatability. To bring up a couple of examples the PGA Tour probably would prefer you not consider: Phil Mickelson is always relatable on the golf course, even though he’s a multi-major winner and you’re not. Phil always seems like he’s one shot away from the “eff it, let’s see what happens if I try this” approach that the rest of us call our golf game. Bryson DeChambeau may not be relatable, what with his U.S. Open trophies and his ability to blast balls into orbit, but he’s absolutely authentic in his pursuit of whatever he’s attempting, be it breaking 50 or hitting a hole-in-one over his house.