Tiger Woods is the title, as he has been his entire career. As chairman of the new PGA Tour competition committee, Woods will make many negotiations, speaking and making hand in hand to approve tournaments.
But sitting on the Woods Committee is a much more curious friend, at least when it comes to golf: Theo Epstein. Yes, the man who not only helped lead Red Sox and Cubs to the world series rings, but also helped create the pitch in baseball. It was not easy to ascertain America’s most traditional passage to adapt to modern times, but he did it. And he has a duty to do some the same with PGA Tour.
Epstein was employed as a consultant for Major League Baseball when he led a little councilor (and partner) with Fenway Sports Group early a $ 1.5 billion collective In the PGA Tour enterprises.
In other words, Epstein’s arrival at the FSG came at a time when the FSG was depth with the tournament. This connection is mostly casual, but its presence in the new committee is not. Epstein is a beloved handicap for Golf 10.4 who plays a lot of golf in the northeast. He was there when Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas played Pine Valley a few years back. (The world discovered it because Fowler made an ace that soon spread to social media.)
Epstein joins six players (Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Camilo Villegas, Maverick McNealy and Keith Mitchell) and two other heavy shocks in the new PGA Tour ecosystem: Joe Gorder, chairman of PGA Tour, and John Henry, founder and owner. In many ways, Henry is more involved among those above mentioned investors, who are collectively known as the strategic sports group (SSG). It is showing that one of the only non-players of the Committee is one of Henry’s business partners, and also the man who helped Henry’s baseball team complete an 86-year-old title drought.
It was not long after Epstein joined FSG Fold that he collapsed on the RBC heritage – held each year a week after the masters – to present to the PGA Tour’s advisory council on how to create changes within the structures of a traditionally rigid sport. Numerous players left the Energy Meeting, as reported by Adam Schupak to Golf.
The message was simple: create changes in the fan center and the sport will win. When the sport wins, the players will win. This is clear to MLB, which saw an increase in popularity after various structural changes, and literally would apply to PGA Tour players, many of whom have received net capital grants for their loyalty and performance.
“Not only (SSG investment) provides, I think, the necessary capital as we work through this competitive model and improved commercial model,” said the new Tour Rolapp CEO on Wednesday, “I also think that teaching from other sports, which I think are useful, in expertise, the perspective I think will be useful.
“One reason why I asked Theo Epstein to participate in this. He clearly has a record in other sports including baseball and has fought with the same competitive issues, and I think we can learn from his experience.
So what can the change in the future look like, where Epstein and Henry help counseling tournaments at the tour? Don’t wait to see the hours shot in the back of the boxes of tee as you will see embedded in the background in the baseball stadiums.
On the contrary, think about the format of events, the structures of SCHEDULE And even perhaps only how many players can call themselves completely excluded PGA Tour members. These topics have been bandaged among the changes that the tournament has made in recent years, often in response to Liv Golf’s growth. But gets The words of Rollapp on Wednesday As evidence that change will not necessarily be slow and stable:
“I will say as a general issue, as I said earlier, this is not about the increasing change, this has to do with the change as significant and aggressive as we can get for the good. So we will be as aggressive as we can.”
