Jay Monahan is leaving the PGA Tour subsequent yr after a decade that ends with a league fractured by the Saudi riches of LIV Golf, turning it over to high NFL govt Brian Rolapp in a brand new position as CEO.
Rolapp, the chief media and enterprise officer for the NFL and a key govt for Commissioner Roger Goodell, was launched Tuesday as CEO, a place that had by no means existed within the tour’s six many years of existence.
“Gamers are central to all the things we do, and ensuring they’re supported and heard might be a high precedence,” Rolapp mentioned in an open letter. “On the similar time, we’re going to hold difficult ourselves to develop the sport in new methods, attain new followers, and create a tour that displays the way forward for sports activities and leisure.”
Listing of all PGA Tour Commissioners
Joe Dey (1969-1974)
Deane Beman (1974-1994)
Tim Finchem (1994-2017)
Jay Monahan (2017-present)
Monahan to stay on PGA Tour board
Monahan introduced final December the seek for a CEO. Nonetheless unclear was Monahan’s position till the announcement of Rolapp.
Monahan will shift his day-to-day tasks to Rolapp and focus extra on his place on the PGA Tour board, together with the industrial PGA Tour Enterprises board, via 2026.
Monahan, who guided all of golf via the COVID-19 pandemic, was criticized for not taking a gathering with the Public Funding Fund of Saudi Arabia when it wished to put money into golf with a workforce element.
LIV Golf started in June 2022 and lured away over the subsequent two years Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka, Jon Rahm and Dustin Johnson. Monahan and two board members, Jimmy Dunne and Ed Herlihy, then secretly met with PIF management and reached an settlement in late Could 2023 that was geared towards bringing golf again collectively. That infuriated PGA Tour gamers who stayed loyal.