That was the message from PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp to the field Tuesday during this week’s Hero World Challenge.
According to a player who attended the meeting, the meeting lasted about 90 minutes and included a Rolapp presentation along with Tiger Woods, the chairman of the Future Competition Committee that is steering the circuit toward what Rolapp called “significant” change.
Rolapp explained the general concepts behind the Tour’s evolution into a new model, while Woods joined the conversation and answered player questions.
Earlier on Tuesday Woods told the media the Future Competition Committee was tasked with “creating the best scheme and product, [and] to deliver all that in ’27 is what we’re trying to do.’
The player who attended the meeting, which included almost everyone in the 20-man field, said the conversation focused on a limited schedule of about 20 to 25 events, played in the best markets, on the best courses, with the best fields at the best time of year. He also said the aim is to create a clearly defined promotion and relegation system, similar to what football has in Britain, and not a vague “PGA Tour A” and “PGA Tour B” framework as the circuit currently has.
The Future Competition Committee’s three ‘management principles’ are equality, scarcity and simplicity, with scarcity – seen as a truncation of the Tour schedule – being the biggest outlier.
“The scarcity thing is something that I know scares a lot of people, but I think if you have scarcity at some level it will be better because it will draw more eyes because there will be less time,” Woods said Tuesday. “But don’t forget that the golf year is a long one. So there are other opportunities and other places in the world or other places to play and host events. So there is a scarcity side to it that is not as scary as people might think.”
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