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15-07-2025
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PGA Tour announces Brian Rolapp as new CEO; Jay Monahan to step down at end of 2026
The PGA Tour announced Monday it hired Brian Rolapp to be its new Chief Executive Officer. Rolapp spent more than two decades with the National Football League, where he assisted in reshaping how fans experienced live sports. His served as the league's Chief Media and Business Officer before joining the Tour. Advertisement As CEO, Rolapp will lead the PGA Tour into its next phase, serving as the CEO of PGA Tour, Inc. and PGA Tour Enterprises. The PGA Tour management team will report to Rolapp upon his start date, and he will report to both Boards of Directors. 'I'm honored to join the PGA Tour at such a pivotal time,' Rolapp said in a release. 'The PGA Tour represents the highest level of competition, integrity and global opportunity in the game of golf, and I believe deeply in the Tour's mission and its potential to grow even stronger. I'm ready to get to work—alongside our players, partners and leadership team—to build lasting value and deliver an even more dynamic future for the sport and our fans.' PGA Commissioner Jay Monahan speaks ahead of the 2025 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio. The PGA Tour CEO Search Committee — consisting of Arthur M. Blank, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Commissioner Jay Monahan, Joe Gorder and Sam Kennedy — unanimously recommended Rolapp for the role. Rolapp will officially begin his new role later this summer. Advertisement Having formed the committee to find his successor, Monahan will transition his day-to-day responsibilities to the new CEO and increasingly focus on his role as a member of the PGA Tour Policy Board and the PGA Tour Enterprises Board through the end of 2026. 'A year ago, I informed our Boards that upon completing a decade as Commissioner, I would step down from my role at the end of 2026,' Monahan said. 'Since then, we've worked together to identify a leader who can build on our momentum and develop a process that ensures a smooth transition. We've found exactly the right leader in Brian Rolapp, and I'm excited to support him as he transitions from the NFL into his new role leading the PGA Tour. 'Brian is the perfect choice for the next chapter of the PGA Tour. His arrival strengthens our leadership team and reflects our shared commitment to the Tour's continued evolution. With Brian's expertise and vision, and the trust we've established with our players and fans, I'm more confident than ever in the future we're building.' Rolapp added, 'Commissioner Monahan is an incredible leader, and it has been a pleasure getting to know him throughout the interview process. I greatly appreciate his commitment to making me successful in the role and look forward to working with him in partnership throughout this transition.' This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Brian Rolapp named new PGA Tour CEO, Jay Monahan to step down
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10-07-2025
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PGA Tour power shift underway with commissioner Jay Monahan moving on soon
The PGA Tour is undergoing a power shift at the top. reported on Monday that the tour plans to 'sunset' commissioner Jay Monahan at some point before the end of next year with incoming CEO Brian Rolapp taking over his power after a transition period. Advertisement Monahan has faced criticism for his handling of LIV Golf, with the rebel league taking some of the biggest names in the sport away from the PGA Tour. Monahan initially took a hard stance on LIV, essentially banning any player from the PGA Tour who left for the huge guaranteed contracts being handed out by the Saudi-funded league. Jay Monahan congratulates Rory McIlroy after winning The Players Championship in March 2025. Getty Images Then, in June 2023, he shockingly announced a deal with PIF — the financial arm of Saudi Arabia — and revealed that a framework of a deal was in place that could possibly merge LIV and the PGA. Two years later, there is still no official deal, and Monahan has provided sparse details when asked about it during his limited media availabilities. Advertisement 'I think anything that I've said or we said, the three of us said, is consistent with what should be said when you're in the middle of a complex discussion to try and reunify the game of golf,' Monahan said in March, per 'It doesn't speak to my confidence level. It speaks to the moment. I view that meeting as a huge step and so I look at that very positively. We had a recent meeting with the President, the Public Investment Fund, thought it was a constructive meeting. 'And we're thankful for the President for his leadership, extremely thankful for him, for his willingness to host us in the Oval Office, and to help us continue those conversations. I feel like if you look at his commentary last week as ultimately seeing a deal happening and Yasir Al-Rumayyan's comments at the FII about the good meeting that we had, I think we'll just continue to move forward on those conversations.' Brian Rolapp was recently named the CEO of the PGA Tour. Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Barring significant progress in the coming months, it will now fall on Rolapp — who was previously a top executive with the NFL — to figure out how to get the biggest names in the sport competing against each other beyond the four majors. Advertisement '[Brian] is coming from a place where the biggest brands and the biggest stars compete against each other as much as possible in the most high-profile time slots on the biggest platforms to drive the most interesting viewership,' a network exec told 'The Tour needs help in that regard.' Monahan, 55, came to the PGA in 2008 after working at Fenway Sports Group and took over as commissioner in 2016 when Tim Finchem stepped down.
