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The PGA Tour’s massive schedule shakeup is not guaranteed to be fully realized next year, according to Tiger Woods.
“We would like to have it happen in 2027—we may have to roll it out over a couple-year period,” Woods said Tuesday at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles ahead of this week’s Genesis Invitational, the PGA Tour event he has hosted since 2020. “We may not be able to implement all of it in 2027, but there will definitely be parts of it integrated or changed from what it is now in ’26 into ’27.”
Woods is chairman of the Future Competition Committee (FCC) that PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp launched last year. Top priorities for schedule changes include playing more tournaments in the largest U.S. markets, starting the season big, and owning the summer. Woods has previously said the schedule could be “leaner” and start after the Super Bowl.
That new FCC role has “been quite a challenge” for Woods. “I thought I spent a lot of hours practicing in my prime,” he said. “It doesn’t even compare to what we’ve done in the boardroom. It’s been challenging. We’re trying to do the right thing. We’re making some great strides.”
The biggest challenge for Woods has been “trying to serve literally everyone, from the player side of it, from our media partners, from all of our title sponsors, from the local communities or even changing venues and going to bigger markets.”
One potential change being explored, Woods said, is moving the Genesis Invitational from its traditional February spot on the calendar to later in the summer as part of the PGA Tour’s FedExCup Playoffs. That could also be the case for other West Coast tournaments that are currently played early in the year.
Eye on the Course
Woods, who hasn’t played a major championship since the 2024 Open Championship, did not rule out the possibility of competing in this year’s Masters, which is 51 days away. But he also didn’t offer a timeline for his return to the golf course as he rehabs from a back surgery in October.
“I’m trying, put it that way,” Woods said.
Woods turned 50 in December and is now eligible for the PGA Tour Champions senior circuit. “I entered a new decade, so that number is starting to sink in and has [me] thinking about the opportunity to be able to play in a cart,” he said. “That’s something that, as I said, I won’t do out here on this tour because I don’t believe in it. But on the Champions Tour, that’s certainly that opportunity.”
Meanwhile, the PGA has approached Woods about captaining the 2027 U.S. Ryder Cup team in Ireland.
“They have asked me for my input on it, and I haven’t made my decision yet,” Woods said. “I’m trying to figure out what we’re trying to do with our tour. That’s been driving me hours upon hours every day and trying to figure out if I can actually do our Team USA and our players and everyone that’s going to be involved in the Ryder Cup, if I can do it justice with my time.”
In 2024, Woods similarly cited his responsibilities helping the PGA Tour negotiate the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia about a potential deal to end the feud with LIV Golf as a major reason for turning down the 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup captaincy.
“Serving on two boards and what I’m doing for the PGA Tour, I’m trying to figure out if I can actually do this and serve the people that are involved and serve them at an honorable level,” Woods said Tuesday about the Ryder Cup.
