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Tiger Woods takes up PGA role but unification in golf is as distant as ever

Tiger Woods pictured at the US Open last year
Tiger Woods, pictured at the US Open last year, will be part of what the PGA Tour chief Brian Rolapp calls ‘a holistic relook of how we compete’. Photograph: Sean M Haffey/Getty Images

Tiger Woods will chair a newly created PGA Tour committee aimed at reshaping golf’s competitive landscape in the US. But comments made by Brian Rolapp, the Tour’s newly appointed chief executive, showed that unification between the sport’s traditional ecosystem and the Saudi Arabian‑backed LIV circuit is as distant as ever.

Woods, who has not competed since the 2024 Open Championship because of injury, was the headline name when Rolapp addressed the media in Atlanta on the eve of the Tour Championship. After just three weeks in office, the chief executive has formed a future competition committee that will also feature Patrick Cantlay and Adam Scott. Rolapp seems clear that the tournament landscape has to change.

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