By [ALEX RASKIN](/profile-148/alex-raskin.html) and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 13:43 BST, 17 June 2025 | Updated: 13:43 BST, 17 June 2025
The PGA Tour has found its next boss in NFL executive Brian Rolapp, who announced the news with an open letter and photo of himself alongside [Tiger Woods](/sport/tiger_woods/index.html) on social media Tuesday morning.
‘I come from the National Football League, so I’ll be the first to admit—I’ve got a lot to learn about golf,’ he wrote. ‘But I love the game, I play the game, and I am a PGA TOUR fan myself. To that end, I cannot wait to meet every one of our players, get in front of as many fans as possible, and better understand the needs of our partners. I’m all in.’
Current commissioner Jay Monahan is leaving the PGA Tour next year after a decade that ends with a league fractured by the Saudi riches of LIV Golf, turning it over to Rolapp in a new role as CEO.
Rolapp, the chief media and business officer for the NFL and a key executive for Commissioner Roger Goodell, was introduced Tuesday as CEO, a position that had never existed in the tour´s six decades of existence.
Monahan announced last December the search for a CEO. Still unclear was Monahan’s role until the announcement of Rolapp.
Monahan will shift his day-to-day responsibilities to Rolapp and focus more on his position on the PGA Tour board, along with the commercial PGA Tour Enterprises board, through 2026.
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