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Mark shlbach
Atlanta – After just three weeks on the job, the CEO of the new PGA Tour is promising “important changes” for the current model of Brian Rollup Tour.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday at the Tour Championship at Rolap, East Lake Golf Club, he announced that he has formed a nine-person future competition committee, which will be led as a 15-time prominent champion. Tiger Woods,
“The target is not a incremental change,” Rolap said. “The goal is a significant change.”
Woods added to a social media post on Wednesday that the committee is “about shaping the next era of PGA Tour”.
Was honored for serving as the chairman of the future competition committee. This is about shaping the next era of PGA Tour – for our fans, players and partners.
Thanks for @Brianrolapp Gives to their vision and leadership, and for their wishes than the members of the committee … https://t.co/d1sedktg4c
– Tiger Woods August 20, 2025
The charge of Rolapp for the committee is “to design the best professional golf competitive model in the world for the benefit of fans, players and their colleagues of PGA Tour. It aims to have a holistic relationship how we compete on the tour.”
According to the PGA Tour, the committee will be directed to control the principles of equality, deficiency and simplicity and will be given a “clean sheet”.
The goals of the committee include strengthening the commitment of seizures to a meritocratic structure, enhancing fan engagement by bringing top golfars together and adding regular season to Postsen better.
Former NFL Executive Officer, Rolap said, “The sports business is not so complicated.” “You get the product right, you get the right partner, your fans will reward you with your time because they are telling you that it is good and they want it more, and then the commercial and business share will take care of themselves.
“So all you have to do is new continuously. I think if I have learned anything in NFL, it is. We are still not sitting. [and we] Rules changed every March. We changed the kickoff rules. This is what I mean by respecting the tradition but it is not bound by it. I think the level of innovation is what we are going to do here, and I think this is a lesson that I have learned. ,
PGA tour players will also be included in the committee Patrick Cantley, Adam scott, Camilo Vilegas, Maveral Mackeli And Keith MichelleAlso, former Walero Energy Chairman and CEO Joe Gorder, Principal owner of Fenway Sports Group John Henry and Fenway Senior Advisor Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox and former General Manager of Chicago Cavage.
Rollup said he appointed Epstein to the committee as he has “track records in other sports including baseball, and wrestled with similar competitive issues, and I think we can learn from his experience.”
A special advisory for MLB played an important role in introducing large hideouts to speed up with limited pickoff efforts such as Epstein, Pitch Clock and Other Rules Changes and to speed up playing in defensive changes and baseball.
“I will definitely bring experience from my work in the National Football League in similar cases,” Rolap said. “I think the external perspective is always a very good thing until it applies correctly.”
Rollup said he has not yet talked to anyone with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which has funded the rival Live Golf League.
The PGA Tour and PIF signed a framework agreement in June 2023 to form an alliance. The sides are still not reaching a deal and have not talked in months, according to sources.
Outgoing PGA Tour Commissioners J Monahan, Woods and Scott met PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayan at the White House on 20 February, but could not make a deal. President Donald Trump has also been involved in talks.
The PGA Tour announced on Tuesday that it was returning to Trump National Dormal in Miami for the first time since 2016. The President -owned course will host the $ 20 million signature program in the first weekend in May.
“I think everyone is excited about returning to a course [where] We have decades experience, “Rolap said.” I think the players are excited. I think we are eager to bring back that PGA Tour tradition. ,
ESPN reported in April that the PGA Tour dismissed the PGA’s most recent proposal to invest $ 1.5 billion in PGA Tour Enterprises, with the beneficial unit of the tour, which came up with the live golf league, came with.
The PIF also wanted Al-Rumayan to serve as the co-chairman of the PGA Tour Enterprises. Gorder is the chairman of the PGA Tour Enterprises Board, and Woods serves as Vice Chairman.
Sources told ESPN last week that Al-Rumayan told the players and managers of the Live Golf League that “he can stop his breath as long as he can stop his breath.”
“I have not talked to anyone to the Public Investment Fund,” Rolap said. “I’m here for three weeks, so my focus is clearly [PGA] Starting to focus on seizures and seizures and start to develop a vision for learning and future. ,
When Rolap was asked whether it was a high priority to reach a deal with reunion and PIF, he said, “I think my primary attention is going to strengthen the tour, and the empty sheet of paper means empty sheet of paper. Whatever it does, I will move forward aggressively. How do I see it.”
“I would offer you that the best collection of golfers in the world is on PGA tour,” Rolap said. “I think there is a group of metrics that displays that whatever you want to choose from ranking to audience. I am bending and strengthening it.”
Rollup, who worked for 22 years in NFL and was considered the last successor of Commissioner Roger Goodll by several people, was hired on 17 June as the first CEO of the PGA Tour.
Masters winner Rory McLeroy He said that he spent about 90 minutes while talking to Rollup for the first time last week.
“I like him. I like him very much,” said McClero. “I like that he doesn’t come from golf. I like what he should look like or look like a tour. I think he is going to bring a new perspective to everything, and I think he wants to move forward very quickly, so I’m excited.”
