Brian Rolapp

And then you go for your outside-the-box candidates, where you're like, "Who's a person who's not currently at the NFL or with an NFL team that might be coming from a different world?" Whether it be the, the world of, of private equity or the world of sports management or business, and you say, "That person might be tapped." But internally there, the names over the years change.

It was Rolapp forever.

Well, Rolapp's now at the PGA.

Is he gonna come back? It was Chris Halpern.

You always heard his name for a while.

Now, Hans Schroeder has been with the league since 2001.

He was an SBJ 40 Under 40 honoree in 2012 and 2013, and he is essentially filling the role, um, of Brian Rolapp, who left for the PGA Tour in June of 2025.

Schroeder spent much of his time working and learning under Brian Rolapp.

And again, I bring this up because all the critical relationships with the media networks and doing any type of media deals across any platform, that will start with and run through Hans Schroeder.

Staying with football, a new survey by Gallup shows that football remains America's favorite sport to watch by a wide margin.

It's why we're looking forward to the President's Cup, even though at least on paper looks like it's gonna be very one-sided

one-sidedAnd you and I did this about two weeks ago, so I'd like for Brian Rolapp, the CEO of the PGA Tour, to meet me on camera one, my one shot, because I can't make this any more clear.

When we talk about making the President's Cup more relative, when we talk about making the President's Cup more competitive, you and I have leaned into the idea they play too many matches.

The reason behind that, maybe the international team is not as strong every two years, year, two years in, two years out, as the US team.

It's because there's no four ball play.

I mean, it, it's, it's so many things that factor into this that I'm like, it, it doesn't take hard to look at this format and realize that that's successful.

Why wouldn't we just copy that at the President's Cup and create something really cool? And I, I'm also going to say that what Brian Rolapp wants to do with the Tour Championship, taking it to smaller classic venues, venues that don't have a footprint that could host a regular PGA Tour event, a 72-hole stroke play, full field PGA Tour event, that maybe doesn't have the yardage that you would want for the best players in the world to play stroke play on.

Look at how Levens played.

Interesting.

At best it would've been Brian Rolapp.

At best.

And now that Goodell is signed for five more years, that won't happen.

Still trying.

Our last nominee, and I would say a big favorite, Brian Rolapp, new CEO of the PGA Tour.

He becomes commissioner also on January 1st.

Did you know that?

Underrated great move.

Um, I've said a lot.

I, I think Jay Monahan had a really, really tough gig, and I think Brian Rolapp benefits a lot from simply not being Jay Monahan and coming in and being a new voice in the room.

But he's done a very good job in a very short amount of time.

I just feel like the, um, the, the tides are turning on, in terms of, like, what cons- uh, what hardcore golf fans like.

A- and it's, uh, given Brian Rolapp's job, he has to look at this and be like, well, like actually ...

You know, like to me is, like where would the Walker Cup rank on your favorite maps, or favorite events in golf?

Um, like within the top four or five.