Tiger Woods has agreed to serve as chairman for a new future competition committee announced by the PGA Tour.
New Tour CEO, Brian Rolapp, confirmed that Woods will chair a committee of nine, including Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell.
Liverpool’s principal owner, John Henry, also joins the board as a “business advisor” along with Fenway Sports Group part-owner and baseball executive Theo Epstein.
The purpose of the committee is to maintain the impressive “competitive parity” on the PGA Tour, while they will also look at how best to get more of the Tour’s top players competing in the same events more often.
Rolapp, who began his tenure just three weeks ago, will take over the running of all PGA Tour matters when current commissioner, Jay Monahan, steps away at the end of next year.
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“One of my first acts we’re going to have is the formation of the Future Competition Committee,” said Rolapp at a press conference ahead of the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
“The purpose of this committee is pretty simple. We’re going to design the best professional golf competitive model in the world for the benefit of PGA Tour fans, the players and their partners. It is aimed at a holistic re-look of how we compete on the Tour.
“That is inclusive of regular season, postseason and off-season. We’re going to focus on the evolution of our competitive model and the corresponding media products and sponsorship elements and model of the entire sport. The goal is not incremental change. The goal is significant change.
“I’m also pleased to announce that Tiger Woods has agreed to serve as chairman. The PGA Tour is certainly fortunate to benefit from his experience and his time and his dedication. That will be important to this effort, and I’m personally grateful for Tiger for offering to take this on.
“There will be additional members to the committee, nine in total with six players, including Tiger. The other players will be Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell.
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“The committee makeup was deliberate and thought through. Clearly it’s player-led, and the player input to this is extremely important. Some, including Maverick and Keith, serve on the player advisory committee.
“All are deeply experienced, and all are in different places in their career. So that diversity of viewpoint will be very important. The others have deep experience in the sports world and deep experience in commercial matters.
“That’s the committee. There will be a few guiding principles of this committee that I will ask them to do, and these principles are key characteristics of what I think will be a successful competitive model going forward.”
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