Tiger Woods is the headliner because he has been his entire career. As chairman of the new future Competitions Committee of the PGA Tour, Woods will negotiate, talk and handwring a lot to spend changes in the Tour.
But sitting in the Woods committee is a much more curious guy, at least when it comes to Golf: Theo Epstein. Yes, the man who not only helped the Red Sox and Cubs to World Series -Rings in Leiden, but also helped in setting pitch bells in baseball. It was not easy to replace the most traditional pastime of America to modern times, but he did it. And he is instructed to do the same with the PGA Tour.
Epstein worked as a consultant for Major League Baseball when he ran somewhat to an adviser (and partial owner) role in the Fenway Sports Group in the early 2024. That step was announced on 2 February 2024, only a few days after FSG and numerous other Sportsegeners Investing $ 1.5 billion.
In other words, the arrival of Epstein at FSG came around the time that FSG came deep into the Tour. That connection is usually coincidental, but his presence in the new committee is not. Epstein is a golf lover 10.4 disabilities that plays a lot of golf in the northeast. He was there when Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas played Pine Valley a few years ago. (The world found out because Fowler made an AAS that quickly spread over social media.)
Epstein joins six players (Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell) and two other heavy strikers in the new ecosystem of the PGA Tour: Joe Gorder, chairman of the PGA Tour’s Boards. In many ways, Henry is the most involved in the aforementioned investors, who are jointly known as Strategic Sports Group (SSG). It says that one of the few non-players members of the committee is one of Henry’s business partners, and also the man who helped Henry’s baseball team to end an 86-year title of drought.
It was not long after Epstein had joined the FSG fold that he was taken to the RBC heritage -held annually the week after the Masters -to present to the Play Advisory Council of the PGA Tour how it was like setting changes in the structures of a traditional rigid sport. Countless players left the meeting energetic, such as reported by Adam Schupak on Golf week.
The message was simple: create a fan-center changes and the sport will win. When the sport wins, the players will win. That clearly happened for the MLB, which saw an increase in popularity after various structural changes, and it would literally apply for PGA Tour players, of whom many stock exchanges have received for their loyalty and performance on the Tour.
‘Don’t do it alone [SSG’s investment] Care, I think, necessary capital while we work through this competitive model and improved commercial model, “said Brian Rolapp of the new Tour -CEO on Wednesday:” I also think it also brings learning from other sports that I think is useful, in expertise, perspectives that I think they will be useful to grow the PGA Tour.
“It is a reason why I asked Theo Epstein to participate in this. He clearly has a track record in other sports, including baseball and has struggled with the same competitive issues, and I think we can learn from his experience. I will certainly experience my work at the National Football League in comparable things.
So, how could it change in the future, where Epstein and Henry help to advise the decision makers of the Tour? Do not expect shot clocks to see on the back of T -shirts as you see in the backball stadiums in the backstop in the backstop.
Rather think of the format of events, the structures of the schedule and even possible how many players can call themselves fully exempt PGA Tour members. These topics are tied up about the changes that the Tour has made in recent years, often in response to the rise of Liv Golf. But take the words of Rolapp on Wednesday as proof that the change will not necessarily be slow and stable:
“I will say as a general issue, as I said before, this is not about incremental change, this is about as important and aggressive change as we can get for the good. So we will be as aggressive as we can.”
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