Breaking down the winners and losers of Brooks Koepka's PGA Tour return

Key Highlights

• There's advantage, too, in arriving as reinforcement to the LIV battle rather than as its shell-shocked defender, a luxury Jay Monahan never enjoyed.
• Yet in less than six months, Rolapp has delivered the most devastating blow since the schism began, one that may prove terminal for his opposition. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe PGA Tour, long before LIV's arrival, was notorious for reactive governance and institutional timidity.
• Rolapp is dismantling that reputation.
• While he honors the weight of everything that's transpired since 2022, a consciousness he's instilled throughout his leadership team, his philosophy refuses to be stuck by precedent.
• That he engineered precisely what the tour needed without alienating the constituency he serves (more on this shortly) required threading an impossibly narrow passage.