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Outside of some TGL appearances earlier this year, Tiger Woods has hardly been in the public eye since his last competitive golf round at the 2024 British Open. Behind the scenes, he has been one of the busiest people in golf.

Woods, who turns 50 later this month, met with the media Tuesday morning ahead of the 2025 Hero World Challenge, his event in the Bahamas at Albany Golf Club. Woods is not competing, missing the event for the fourth time in the past five years due to back surgery he had in October. While there hasn't been much golf in his life the past year due to an Achilles injury in March followed by his latest procedure, Woods has been busy shaping the future of the PGA Tour.

One of the first things new PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp did when taking the role was to create a Future Competitions Committee (FCC), and he made Woods the chairman.

“The purpose of this committee is pretty simple: we're going to design the best professional golf competitive model in the world for the benefit of PGA Tour fans, players and their partners," Rolapp said at the Tour Championship. "It is aimed at a holistic re-look of how we compete on the Tour. That is inclusive of regular season, postseason and offseason."

In the ensuing months, Woods has spoken with Rolapp, tournament sponsors, players and numerous others about visions for the future PGA Tour schedule.

"This is fan-based," Woods said. "We're trying to give the fans the best product we possibly can, and if we're able to give the fans the best product we can, I think we can make the players who have equity in the Tour, we can give them more of that. So the financial windfall could be fantastic for everyone who's involved."

Woods mentioned that the FCC has met three times, with another coming soon. He said they have torn down so many different scheduling models and tried to come up with a formula that works best for all parties involved.

"Then it's up to us at the committee to try to put it all together and try to make it work and keep the players informed to what possibly could happen. And we want their opinions as well. We're being very transparent with all of this. That's something that we've been very adamant and I've been very adamant before about this process is the transparency side of it. This is something that's going to be fantastic for all of the fans, for the players. As I said, it could be a financial windfall for everyone."

There have been a lot of conversations surrounding a condensed PGA Tour schedule. Two weeks ago at the RSM Classic, Harris English hinted that the Tour schedule might not start until after the Super Bowl. Woods mentioned how the schedule has changed in the past, not ending well into the fall, so as not to compete with the NFL.

In the end, the goal is the same for the Scottie Schefflers and the rank-and-file players: a stronger PGA Tour for everyone.

"Create a product that players want to be involved in, will be involved in, they're excited to be a part of and the fans and all of our partners at all of our events and all the people that are involved in the sport, that this is a better product," Woods said.

Woods said Rolapp has been fantastic in his early days as CEO of the Tour. Woods noted Rolapp's calmness, thoughtfulness, directness and transparency were "things that we were looking for."

As far as developing and crafting a new PGA Tour schedule, Woods said the FCC started with a blank slate. He used an analogy of starting with a blank slate of paper and putting thousands of ideas on it. Then they add in all of the thoughts from people the FCC spoke with, and add those ideas in, too. Combine them, find the strength and the key points and build from there.

"Yes, there's going to be some eggs that are spilled and crushed but — and broken, but I think that in the end we're going to have a product that is far better than what we have now for everyone involved," Woods said.

Some of those crushed eggs could be fewer events. In 2025, the PGA Tour held 46 official events. That number could drop closer to 25-30 in future models, with the word scarcity popping up often in conversations surrounding a revamped schedule. Woods and Rolapp said the PGA Tour has parity already, which is one of the hardest things to achieve in sports. Now it's about capitalizing on other areas to strengthen the product.

"The simplicity part, that's another part that you didn't say that we have to try and simplify," Woods said. "Simplify the point structure on the FedExCup so not only the players understand, but the fans can understand it, what goes on every week, week to week, how they can follow and how we can make it better. And the scarcity thing is something that I know scares a lot of people, but I think that if you have scarcity at a certain level, it will be better because it will drive more eyes because there will be less time.

"But don't forget the golfing year is long. So there's other opportunities and other places around the world or other places to play that can be created and have events. So there's a scarcity side of it that's not as scary as people might think."

Woods said he has been working more on the 2027-28 PGA Tour schedules, almost more than his own rehab. In a perfect world, Woods said, the new schedule will be unveiled for the 2027 season.

"We're working with all of our partners to create the best schedule and product to deliver all that in '27 is something we're trying to do," Woods said. "I don't know if we can get there, I don't know if we will get there, but that's what we're trying to do."

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Tiger Woods dishes on his role revamping PGA Tour schedule, goal of 2027

Reporting by Cameron Jourdan, Golfweek / Golfweek

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