{"id":27222,"date":"2026-06-25T15:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/27222\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:37:25","slug":"pga-tour-revamps-schedule-approves-ceo-brian-rolapp-as-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/27222\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Revamps Schedule, Approves CEO Brian Rolapp as Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe two PGA Tour<\/a> boards (Policy and Enterprises) approved recommendations from its Future Competition Committee that established a revamped, two-tier tournament system\u2014with promotion and relegation of players\u2014that begins in 2028. The boards also approved PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp<\/a> as the tour\u2019s next commissioner, replacing Jay Monahan<\/a>, effective Jan. 1.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new schedule includes the PGA Tour Championship Series for the top players in the sport and will consist of 23-24 events, while the PGA Tour Challenger Series will serve as a feeder tour with immediate promotion after two Challenger Series wins in a single season.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Championship Series will include signature tournaments, the four majors, the Players Championship, season-ending events and the Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup. Each signature event will have a purse of at least $20 million, and the season is expected to run from February through August.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThroughout this process, we have listened closely to players, partners and our fans,\u201d Rolapp said in a letter to the public. \u201cYou told us you wanted to see the best players in the world competing against one another more often. You wanted clearer stakes as the season unfolds. And you wanted a more dramatic finish to the season that rewards excellence and makes every tournament matter. This new model is our response.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Future Competition Committee was formed in August shortly after Rolapp left the NFL<\/a> to become the PGA Tour\u2019s first CEO. The committee was tasked with taking a comprehensive review of the existing competition model. It was headed by Tiger Woods<\/a> and included five other players, plus three business advisors, Joe Gorder, John Henry and Theo Epstein. Woods said the committee wanted to create a model that set up the tour, its players and corporate partners for \u201clong-term success and stability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe PGA Tour said it lined up an initial 10 of an expected 15 regular season events, and the remaining dates will be filled by either existing events or new markets under consideration, including Boston, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe season-ending Tour Championship is also getting a new look. It will feature match play and rotate across venues, including many first-time tour stops. That\u2019s a departure from the stroke-play, same-venue model at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, which has been the home of the Tour Championship since 2005.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Championship Series will typically feature fields of 120 players. Players are not required to compete in each event, and there will be no sponsor exemptions. Membership will consist of a minimum of 90 players from the prior season\u2019s points list and\u00a020 players promoted from the\u00a0Challenger Series, introducing a true promotion and relegation system. Relegated players will have the opportunity to compete in a \u201clast chance\u201d series that consists of four to six events in the fall.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Challenger Series will feature 20 events with purses of at least $4 million. PGA Tour players are only allowed to participate in their respective series. Last week, Rory McIlroy called it a \u201cglorified Korn Ferry,\u201d referencing the current developmental golf tour.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe think we just organized the same tour into a much more interesting and competitive system,\u201d Rolapp said in a Tuesday morning press conference. He also said Challenger Series tournaments will be at recognizable venues for healthy purses featuring current PGA Tour players. \u201cThat is much different than what the Korn Ferry Tour is today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tRolapp says the new format will put the tour in a better position in its next media rights negotiations. The current agreements with CBS and ABC\/ESPN end in 2031, while NBC and USA Sports have rights through 2033. He said the current media partners had input in the tour revamp process.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think the demand for live sports programming is still at an all-time high, but not all live sports programming is the same,\u201d Rolapp said at his press conference. \u201cYou need to compete in the distribution options, and the financial backing or rights fees available are not limitless, so you need to innovate and be the best you can. I believe these changes put us in a much better position to compete with all of the alternatives that any media partner has for their programming dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two PGA Tour boards (Policy and Enterprises) approved recommendations from its Future Competition Committee that established a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1443,1339,5875,144,1142],"class_list":["post-27222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bmw-championship","tag-bmw-championship","tag-brian-rolapp","tag-jay-monahan","tag-pga-tour","tag-tiger-woods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}