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PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp announced layoffs on Thursday. Andrew Redington \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
April 23, 2026Updated 4:17 pm EDT<\/p>\n
The PGA Tour laid off 56 employees on Thursday, an elimination of 4 percent of the company\u2019s headcount. The move was announced in an internal email from CEO Brian Rolapp, obtained by The Athletic.<\/p>\n
Rolapp wrote that the impacted roles were decided upon after a review conducted by FTI Consulting. The PGA Tour is seeking to cut costs across its business as it evolves into a for-profit model.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we took a difficult \u2014 but important \u2014 step,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
In January 2024, the PGA Tour launched PGA Tour Enterprises, its for-profit venture backed by Strategic Sports Group, the private equity group that injected $1.5 billion into the tour. The SSG deal allowed players to hold equity in the tour, and the group\u2019s stated focus was to \u201cmaximize revenue generation\u201d for the PGA Tour. The tour also recently confirmed<\/a> that it will not travel to Hawaii for its opening two events of the season, the Sentry in Maui and the Sony Open in Oahu, to cut logistics costs.<\/p>\n In addition to reducing the headcount at the tour, 73 open roles will no longer be filled. In his email, Rolapp stated that the decision was made so that the PGA Tour can \u201cmove faster, make better decisions and continue to evolve as the future competitive and commercial model takes shape.\u201d Rolapp, along with a committee of board members and players, is currently redesigning the tour\u2019s competitive structure.<\/p>\n Despite the cuts, the PGA Tour will continue to hire, according to Rolapp, but in reprioritized areas where it believes new talent is needed.<\/p>\n Rolapp will address the tour employees during an all-hands meeting on Monday. The tour initiated a voluntary retirement program in 2025.<\/p>\n Apr 23, 2026<\/p>\n Connections: Sports Edition<\/p>\n Spot the pattern. Connect the terms<\/p>\n Find the hidden link between sports terms<\/p>\n Play today’s puzzle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp announced layoffs on Thursday. Andrew Redington \/ Getty Images April 23, 2026Updated 4:17…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,3564,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sports-business","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n