Six steps to golf's bold future: New PGA Tour chief Rolapp lays out blueprint for change

ROLL UP, ROLAPP: Brian Rolapp, Chief Executive Officer of the PGA TOUR, speaks to the media prior to the TOUR Championship 2025 at East Lake Golf Club on August 20, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. Pic: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

The annual state of the PGA Tour address from the chief typically starts with a long preamble boasting about past accomplishments. New CEO Brian Rolapp instead got straight into his focus on the future.

Rolapp laid out a blueprint of what the PGA Tour model will look by 2028, and what it lacked in specific details still to be ironed out it made up for in preparing professional golf’s constituents that big changes are inevitable. With the future competition committee helmed by Tiger Woods, a new streamlined and two-track tour is going to emerge.