by Atlanta – Tiger Woods is again a major golf player, this time without clubs. He was appointed Wednesday to chair a new committee responsible for examining the competitive model on how the PGA Tour is organizing its tournaments.
Brian Rolapp, three weeks in his role as the first CEO of the tour, announced the “future Committee Competition” of nine members and declared that he would have a white sheet to consider the changes that maintain traditions without being linked to them.
“This is to shape the next era of the PGA Tour,” said Woods in an article on social networks.
ROLAPP had no details on several questions he faced while he succeeds Commissioner Jay Monahan, including the future of a sport that was broken out by the Saudi money who created the Rivale Liv Golf League and attracted a number of best players.
PGA Tour negotiations with the public investment fund have stalled, and Rolapp did not do this as if it were an absolute priority when it was questioned about the desire of fans to see all the best players together more often.
“I’m going to focus on what I can control,” said Rolapp. "I would offer you that the best collection of golfers in the world is on the PGA Tour. I think there are a lot of measures that demonstrate this, from the classification to the audience to everything you want to choose. I’m going to look at it and strengthen this.
“I would also say that insofar as we can do anything that will further strengthen the PGA Tour, we will do it,” he said. “And I am interested in exploring everything that strengthens the PGA Tour.”
Woods, which has only played 10 times on the PGA Tour since its car accident in February 2021 and has been released this year with a Rumped Achilles tendon, is already in the PGA Tour Board without a term limit.
Now he will run five players from the Board of Directors – Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell – as well as three on the business side. This includes the Baseball Director Theo Epstein.
ROLAPP does not try to reinvent a sport that held its first championship in 1860. He said that among his first observations, after two decades at the NFL, was the strength and momentum of the PGA Tour.
“My key to remember when you boil all of this is that the force of the PGA Tour is strong, but there is much more than we do, much more than we have to change in favor of fans, players and our partners,” he said.
He said that the committee would be guided by parity (he has already conceded golf), rarity and simplicity.
The tour on Tuesday published a 2026 calendar which adds another signing event of $ 20 million, it to Trump National Doral, as part of a calendar of 35 events from January to August. ROLAPP said simplicity mainly consisted in connecting the regular season to the playoffs.
He described the work of the “holistic replayed replay committee of the way we compete on the tour” during the regular season, the playoffs and the offseason.
“The objective is not a progressive change,” he said. “The objective is an important change.”
He did not put any calendar for nothing. The Tour championship ends this week at East Lake for the best best players. The tour has eliminated the integrated advantage for the heads of the start so that everyone starts from zero.
The committee is a smaller version of the board of directors of PGA Tour Enterprises and the political council. The chairman of the board of directors, Joe Gorder, and John Henry of Fenway Sports Group, heads the strategic sports group which has invested $ 1.5 billion – with the potential to double – in the tour in a minority investment announced 18 months ago.
ROLAPP said he had a lot of ideas how to use money but none that it was ready to share. But he said that SSG’s involvement was a great reason he had taken the post.
"Not only does it provide necessary capital when we work through this competitive model and an improved business model, but I also think that it also provides lessons from other sports, which, I think, is beneficial … to develop the PGA Tour.
“I think that the external perspective is always a very good thing, as long as it is applied in the right way. I think SSG has brought this and was useful."
