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In the fall of 2025, the PGA Tour created something of an in-house skunkworks, meant to transform the way the golf tour organizing body operated. That effort, called the Future Competition Committee, was chaired by Tiger Woods, who, with PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp, would undertake an effort to reimagine professional golf.<\/p>\n

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Like all professional sports, that means it is about media, and TV, and how consumers watch their favorite athletes compete at the highest level. So PGA Tour chief commercial officer Dhruv Prasad tells The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>that \u201cthe first step that committee actually took was inviting in both current as well as potential future media partners to share with us their thoughts on what was good and what was not so great about the PGA Tour\u2019s current model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prasad didn\u2019t name names, but one doesn\u2019t have to use too much imagination to suspect that the likes of NBC Sports, ESPN, Netflix, Golf Channel, CBS Sports and other networks were participating.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re pretty transparent about what we\u2019re trying to do,\u201d Prasad says. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to create a more compelling media product that results in more viewership, that results in greater fan affinity, a larger, more diverse, younger fan base that leads to more value in our media rights and in our economic model overall.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a sports media environment where the big get bigger (looking at you NFL and NBA) everyone else is rethinking how they operate, and for the PGA Tour, led by Rolapp, a longtime NFL media executive, that means transforming the PGA Tour itself. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe also exist in a really competitive sports world,\u201d Rolapp said at a press conference unveiling the format. \u201cWhether\u00a0you\u2019re competing for fans\u2019 attention, if you\u2019re competing for media dollars, which is the economic lifeblood of every sport in this country, you need to be constantly improving the product. I think we looked around and we saw what we need to do to increase fans\u2019 attention and create more value for our partners and felt this was necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result of that effort was revealed last week, and it will change the sport entirely beginning in 2028: There will be two series of events happening concurrently, a Championship series with the best players in the world, and a Challenger series with up and coming players. Notably, as with European soccer, there will be a relegation and promotion system, with the best Challenger series players being elevated to the Championship series, and the bottom ranked Championship series players being relegated to the Challenger series. There will also be a made-for-TV \u201clast chance\u201d series, where Championship players that have been relegated and some top Challenger players compete head to head for spots in the top league.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the themes they [the current and possible future media partners] identified are the ones that we acted upon and turned into principles for the Future Competition Committee from a design perspective,\u201d Prasad says. \u201cThat is bigger season culmination, a more consistent product, a season long narrative, a simpler point system, opening big with a series of tournaments that really matter on iconic courses, those are all things that are going to be carried through into the new model, and they come from direct feedback and counsel from our media partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PGA Tour, of course, has its current deals locked in through 2030, and while Prasad says they have not had any discussions about new deals just yet, he adds that, \u201cI don\u2019t think we have any preconceived notions about what the future packaging is going to be, and what the elements of each package will be for our media distribution partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s possible we could continue with the current partners,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt\u2019s possible new partners could come in at some point in the future. I don\u2019t think we know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But Prasad, who worked with Rolapp at the NFL, acknowledges that the changing media environment played a big role in shaping how the PGA Tour tackles that future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re at a very interesting time in history from a media environment standpoint, because you have experienced sports broadcasters who deliver, I think, incredible productions and broad reach, and have experience \u2014 you know, sports broadcasting is a skill, it\u2019s a capability and a competency that not everyone has \u2014 and so you have partners who\u2019ve been in this space for a long time, who deliver a great product, and then at the same time you have new partners that are coming in, taking what seem to be increasingly bigger bites of the sports media pie, whether it\u2019s NFL football games, whether it\u2019s Major League Baseball or hockey, Formula One, you\u2019re starting to see bigger and bigger bites from the likes of YouTube and Netflix and Amazon Prime Video and Apple,\u201d Prasad says. \u201cWhat\u2019s been interesting about that is this focus by the new entrants that\u2019s been on tentpole events and discrete identifiable properties within maybe an overall ecosystem\u2026 I would expect that that changes in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

But to start, the PGA Tour has to execute on the new vision articulated by Rolapp and Tiger Woods, who remains arguably the most famous golfer on planet earth, and a liaison between players, fans, and the Tour itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes the best sports great from a fan perspective is when every game matters, every week matters, and in our case every tournament matters in an overall competitive system,\u201d Prasad says. \u201cAnd what I think the PGA Tour lacks today in our current model is a fan understanding of how each tournament fits into the overall system, so we\u2019re trying to evolve to a system where every week, every tournament matters from a competitive standpoint, whether it\u2019s in the Championship series where players are battling for a season-long championship, or in the Challenger series, where players are trying to get promoted up into the Championship series, and that\u2019s the primary thing that they\u2019re playing for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prasad says that longtime PGA Tour sponsors are on board too, noting that the changes will bring \u201cmuch more clarity for our corporate sponsors into the product that they\u2019re investing in\u201d in both series.<\/p>\n

And the \u201clast chance\u201d events could become must-have TV itself: \u201cThe stakes in that event, or in that series of events, could not possibly be higher because people are literally playing for their competitive future and which tournament track they\u2019re going to be on, so that\u2019s an entirely new platform that didn\u2019t exist before,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the sort of structure that could shake new media partners out of the woodwork, or allow the Tour to lean into new media in a way that the NFL did with its bevy of deals, slicing and dicing for maximum reach and maximum revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very bullish on the opportunity on new partners, and we saw how that expanded the distribution framework at the NFL, and I think it can now do the same thing in golf,\u201d Prasad says. <\/p>\n

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