Overview

• Tiger Woods addressed staff and voiced support for Brian Rolapp as he assumed the chair of the new Future Competition Committee.
• The nine-member panel of five players and three business leaders is tasked with a holistic redesign of the Tour’s regular season, postseason and offseason.
• Rolapp set three guiding principles for the revamp: competitive parity, scarcity and simplicity.
• A voluntary retirement program modeled on an NFL initiative offers packages to roughly 5–10% of the Tour’s approximately 1,300 employees.
• Early messaging points to potential reductions in sponsor exemptions and a lighter schedule to increase scarcity, with internal concern over workforce disruption reported.