The PGA Tour announced on Tuesday that Brian Rolapp has been named to the new position of CEO. Rolapp, 52, joins the tour after spending more than two decades with the NFL, serving most recently as the league’s Chief Media and Business Officer. “I’m honored to step into the role of CEO of the PGA Read more…
The PGA Tour’s signature event model that Rory McIlroy helped to create in 2022 in response to the LIV Golf League incursion into men’s golf appears to not be working for some players—most notably Rory McIlroy.
The three-time PGA Tour winner has finally begun hitting golf balls again, but his recent focus has been on a different athletic achievement: Running the Boston Marathon.
The experimental period will begin at the RBC Heritage just after the Masters, and concluding the week before the PGA Championship at the Truist Championship and the OneFlight Myrtle Beach Classic.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan preached optimism regarding the ongoing negotiations with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, but stressed that the tour will only do a deal on its terms.
PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan stated that the tour will begin publishing “speed-of-play-related statistics” later this year. These will include listing names and data on individual players, both fast and slow.
With the newly created position, the tour will not replace Ron Price’s COO spot. Monahan will remain CEO of the tour’s for-profit PGA Tour Enterprises.
In 2023, Monahan had a base salary of $US1,887,096, with bonuses and incentives of $US12.1 million, retirement benefits of $US2.5 million and long-term incentives of $US6.7 million.
The slew of changes proposed last month were approved at the official session of the full PGA Tour Policy Board. There was no indication in the tour’s press release of vote totals.
Golf Digest has confirmed what was first reported by Bunkered.co.uk, that Monahan, along with a few other PGA Tour “team members”, has been in attendance at the Future Investment Initiative (FII), an annual conference run by the PIF in Riyadh.
Australian Golf Digest
