by Tiger Woods will run a new committee led by players aimed at supervising a radical upheaval of professional golf course in North America, Brian Rolapp announced on Wednesday.
Speaking on the eve of the end -of -season touring championship, Rolapp said that Woods would act as chairman of a future competition committee for nine members aimed at designing the “optimal competitive model” for golf.
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ROLAPP, who has recently taken his post with the PGA Tour after two decades with the National Football League, said the committee had been accused of “significant change” of the existing sports model.
“The goal of this committee is quite simple,” said Rolapp at a press conference.
“We are going to design the best model of professional golf competition in the world for the benefit of PGA Tour fans, players and their partners,” he added.
“The objective is not a progressive change. The objective is a significant change.”
Woods will be one of the six players serving the Committee alongside Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell.
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ROLAPP said the committee would be motivated by guiding principles that favored competitive parity, creating more tournaments where the best players compete and designing a simple season to follow.
“I think the goal will be to create events that really matter, and how we do that, what is this number, we will determine,” said Rolapp. “But this is certainly the goal.
“How do you really lead a competition calendar where each event counts, which is connected to a season, but do it in a way where the best golfers can meet and perform well?” Said Rolapp. “I think it’s an open question – and these are the things we are going to look at with an open mind.”
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– “Nothing of the table” –
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal published on Wednesday, Woods said that the committee would examine all the options. The possible changes could include fewer events, smaller fields and higher issues, the newspaper reported.
“Nothing is outside the table,” Woods told the newspaper. “We are going to cross many different scenarios and many different things that could happen.”
Woods, 49, who has not contributed this year, while he recovers from a torn Achilles, suggested that the PGA Tour was ready for important changes in its format.
“This is one of the most exciting moments in our sport to be able to create something that is really transformer,” said Woods.
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“Sometimes you never get an opportunity like that throughout your career. But we have this moment right now.”
ROLAPP did not give a calendar when a new tour – which has already published its calendar of the 2026 season – would be deployed.
“We will take so long to do things well,” said Rolapp. “I would like to put the right competitive model as soon as possible.
“But we want to do things properly, so as long as it takes, we will do it, while moving aggressively.”
Meanwhile, Rolapp did not comment on how the planned upheaval of the PGA Tour would adapt to the current talks aimed at unifying sport after the rise of the Liv Golf Circuit funded by Saudi Arabia.
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“I think that my main objective will be to strengthen the visit and a blank paper sheet means a blank sheet of paper. Anyway, I will continue aggressively,” said Rolapp when asked if finding common ground with the Liv golf was a priority.
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