ATLANTA – After simply three weeks of labor, new PGA Tour CEO Brian Lolap has promised a “large change” to the tour’s present mannequin.
Rollup spoke to reporters on the tour championships held at East Lake Golf Membership on Wednesday, and introduced that he has arrange a nine-man future competitors committee led by 15-time main champion Tiger Woods.
“The aim will not be a gradual change,” Rollup stated. “The aim is an enormous change.”
Woods added in a social media submit Wednesday that the committee is “shaping the subsequent period of the PGA Tour.”
I’m honored to chair the longer term competitors committee. That is to form the subsequent period of the PGA Tour for followers, gamers and companions.
Thanks for @BrianRolapp I wish to thank his imaginative and prescient and management, and to the committee members for his or her willingness… https://t.co/d1sedktg4c
– Tigerwoods (@tigerwoods) August 20, 2025
Lolap’s accusations to the committee are “to design the most effective skilled golf competitors mannequin on this planet for the good thing about PGA Tour followers, gamers and their companions. We purpose for the general relationship of how we compete on the tour.”
The committee is guided by managing the rules of parity, rarity and ease, in line with the PGA Tour, and is given a “clear sheet” to “make sure that potential modifications will honor the gaming custom with out being overly sure.”
The committee’s objectives embrace strengthening dedication to tour achievements and rising fan engagement by linking prime golfers extra often and linking the common season with the postseason.
“The sports activities enterprise will not be that difficult,” stated Rolapp, a former NFL government. “You will get the product proper, get the proper accomplice and your followers will reward you with their time as they are saying it is good and need it.
“Then it’s important to always innovate. In the event you’ve discovered something within the NFL, I believe that is it. We did not change the foundations each March. We modified the kickoff guidelines.
The committee additionally consists of PGA Tour gamers Patrick Cantray, Adam Scott, Camilo Vilgas, Maverick McNelley and Keith Mitchell, former Valero Power Chairman and CEO Joe Goder, Fenway Sports activities Group principal John Henry and Fenway Senior Advisor Theo Epstein.
Rolapp stated he appointed Epstein to the committee as a result of he “has a monitor document in different sports activities, together with baseball, and is engaged on these identical aggressive points and I believe we are able to study from his expertise.”
Epstein, a particular advisor for MLB, helped introduce different guidelines modifications, resembling pitch clocks, restricted pick-off makes an attempt and defensive shifts, and a bigger base to hurry up baseball play.
“I actually deliver expertise from my work within the Nationwide Soccer League with related points,” Rollup stated. “I believe exterior views are all the time superb so long as they’re utilized in the proper method.”
Rolapp stated he has not spoken to anybody within the Saudi Arabian public funding fund that funds rival Liv Golf League.
The PGA Tour and PIF signed a framework settlement to type an alliance in June 2023. Sources say the facet has but to succeed in a deal and has not spoken in just a few months.
Revealed PGA Tour Commissioners Jay Monahan, Woods and Scott met with PIF Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan on the White Home on February twentieth, however had been unable to launch the deal. President Donald Trump can also be concerned within the assembly.
The PGA Tour introduced on Tuesday that it’ll return to Trump Nationwide Doral in Miami for the primary time since 2016. The president-owned course will host a $20 million signature occasion over the primary weekend of Might.
“I believe everybody is worked up to get again on the course (right here) and have many years of expertise,” Lollup stated. “I believe gamers are excited and I believe they’re wanting ahead to regaining it as a PGA Tour custom.”
ESPN reported in April that the PGA Tour rejected PIF’s newest provide to take a position $1.5 billion in PGA Tour Enterprises. This can be a tour revenue organisation with warning that the Liv Golf League will stay intact.
PIF additionally wished Al-Rumayyan to co-chair the board of PGA Tour Enterprises. Gorder is chairman of the PGA Tour Enterprises Board and Woods is vice-president.
Sources advised ESPN final week that Al Lumayan advised Liv Golf League gamers and managers “I can maintain my breath like anybody else.”
“I have not spoken to anybody within the public funding fund,” Rollup stated. “I have been right here for 3 weeks so my focus is clearly on the (PGA) tour, specializing in the tour and beginning to develop a little bit of studying and imaginative and prescient for the longer term.”
When requested if it was a precedence for Rolapp to succeed in unification and offers with PIF, he stated, “I believe my important focus is on strengthening the tour. Clean paper means clean paper.
“We provide a group of the world’s greatest golfers on the PGA tour,” Lolap stated. “From rankings to viewers to what you need to select, I believe there are lots of metrics that present you leaning on it and bolstering it.”
Rollup, who labored within the NFL for 22 years and was thought-about by many to be the final word successor to Commissioner Roger Goodell, was employed on June seventeenth as the primary CEO of the PGA Tour.
Masters winner Rory McIlroy stated he spoke with Lolap for about 90 minutes for the primary time final week.
“I like him. I like him loads,” McIlroy stated. “I like that he is not coming from golf. I like that he would not have the concept of preconceived notions about what golf ought to seem like, or what tour ought to seem like. I believe he brings a contemporary perspective to every thing.
