ATLANTA — After only three weeks on the job, new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp is promising «significant change» to the tour's current model.
Rolapp, speaking to reporters Wednesday at the Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club, announced he has formed a nine-person future competition committee that will be led by 15-time major champion Tiger Woods.
«The goal is not incremental change,» Rolapp said. «The goal is significant change.»
Woods added Wednesday in a social media post that the committee «is about shaping the next era of the PGA Tour.»
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Rolapp's charge to the committee is «to design the best professional golf competitive model in the world for the benefit of PGA Tour fans, players and their partners. It is aimed at a holistic relook of how we compete on the tour.»
The committee will be guided by governing principles of parity, scarcity and simplicity and will be given a «clean sheet» to «ensure potential changes honor the traditions of the game without being overly bound by them,» according to the PGA Tour.
The committee's goals include strengthening the tour's commitment to a meritocratic structure, increasing fan engagement by bringing top golfers together more often and better connecting the regular season to the postseason.
«The sports business is not that complicated,» said Rolapp, a former NFL executive. «You get the product right, you get the right partners,
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