Tiger Woods will head a brand new player-led committee geared toward overseeing a radical shake-up {of professional} golf in North America, PGA Tour chief government Brian Rolapp introduced on Wednesday.
Talking on the eve of the season-ending Tour Championship, Rolapp stated Woods would act as chairman for a nine-member Future Competitors Committee geared toward designing the “optimum aggressive mannequin” for golf.
Rolapp, who solely lately took up his put up with the PGA Tour after 20 years with the Nationwide Soccer League, stated the committee had been charged with main “vital change” to the game’s present mannequin.
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“The aim of this committee is fairly easy,” Rolapp informed a press convention.
“We’re going to design one of the best skilled golf aggressive mannequin on the earth for the advantage of PGA Tour followers, gamers and their companions,” he added.
“The aim is just not incremental change. The aim is critical change.”
Woods shall be one in all six gamers serving on the committee alongside Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell.
Three enterprise advisers on the panel embody John Henry, the billionaire proprietor of Fenway Sports activities Group which owns the Boston Purple Sox and English Premier League champions Liverpool.
Rolapp stated the committee could be pushed by guiding rules that promoted aggressive parity, creating extra tournaments the place the highest gamers face off towards one another and designing a season that was easy to comply with.
“I believe the main focus shall be to create occasions that basically matter, and the way we try this, what that quantity is, we’ll decide,” Rolapp stated. “However that’s definitely the aim.
“How do you truly drive a contest schedule the place each occasion issues, that’s related to a postseason, however do it in a approach the place one of the best golfers can get collectively and truly carry out properly?” Rolapp stated. “I believe that’s all an open query — and people are the issues we’re going to take a look at with an open thoughts.”
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– ‘Nothing off desk’ –
In an interview with the Wall Road Journal revealed on Wednesday, Woods stated the committee would look at all choices. Attainable adjustments might embody fewer occasions, smaller fields and better stakes, the Journal reported.
“Nothing’s off the desk,” Woods informed the newspaper. “We’re going to run by means of a whole lot of totally different eventualities and a whole lot of various things that would occur.” Woods, 49, who has not competed this yr, as he recovers from a torn Achilles, hinted that the PGA Tour was poised for momentous adjustments to its format.
“It’s one of the vital thrilling instances in our sport to have the ability to create one thing that’s really transformative,” Woods stated.
“Generally you by no means get a possibility like that in your complete profession. However we’ve that second proper now.”
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Rolapp didn’t give a timeline of when a new-look Tour — which has already launched its 2026 season schedule — could be rolled out.
“We’ll take as a lot time to get it proper,” Rolapp stated. “I wish to put in the appropriate aggressive mannequin as quickly as we will.
“However we wish to do it proper, so nevertheless lengthy it takes, we’ll do, whereas transferring aggressively.” Rolapp in the meantime didn’t touch upon how the PGA Tour’s deliberate shake-up would dovetail with the continuing talks geared toward unifying the game following the rise of the Saudi Arabia-financed LIV Golf circuit.
“I believe my major focus goes to be on strengthening the Tour, and clean sheet of paper, means clean sheet of paper. No matter does that, I’ll pursue aggressively,” Rolapp stated when requested whether or not discovering widespread floor with LIV Golf was a precedence.