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Chattanooga native Keith Mitchell to help shape PGA Tour’s future

AP photo by Matt Rourke / Chattanooga native Keith Mitchell, a former Baylor School and University of Georgia golf standout, watches one of his shots during the final round of the PGA Tour's Truist Championship on May 11 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown, Pa.
AP photo by Matt Rourke / Chattanooga native Keith Mitchell, a former Baylor School and University of Georgia golf standout, watches one of his shots during the final round of the PGA Tour's Truist Championship on May 11 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown, Pa. AP photo by Matt Rourke / Chattanooga native Keith Mitchell, a former Baylor School and University of Georgia golf standout, watches one of his shots during the final round of the PGA Tour's Truist Championship on May 11 at the Philadelphia Cricket Club in Flourtown, Pa.

By DOUG FERGUSON / The Associated Press 5 min read

ATLANTA — Tiger Woods is a major player in golf again, this time without clubs.

He was appointed Wednesday to chair a new committee charged with taking a fresh look at the competitive model for how the PGA Tour runs its tournaments.

Brian Rolapp, three weeks into his role as the tour’s first CEO after two decades as an executive for the National Football League, announced the nine-member “Future Competition Committee” and said it would have a clean sheet to consider changes that uphold traditions without being tied to them.

“This is about shaping the next era of the PGA Tour,” Woods wrote in a social media post.

Woods, who has played only 10 tournaments on the PGA Tour since his February 2021 car crash and has been out all of this year with a ruptured Achilles tendon, already serves on the tour’s main board and has no term limit in the role.