The PGA Tour yesterday announced that MAVERICK MCNEALY and KEITH MITCHELL have been elected co-Chairmen of the 2025 Player Advisory Council by the Tour’s membership, according to Adam Schupak of GOLFWEEK. McNealy and Mitchell will replace PETER MALNATI and WEBB SIMPSON on January 1, 2026, as Player Directors on the PGA Tour Policy Board. McNealy was the “leading vote-getter” and will serve a four-year term on the Tour Policy Board. Mitchell, who received the second-most votes, will serve a three-year term. The ballot included McNealy, Mitchell and RICKIE FOWLER. The PAC will “transition to a process that allows for only one PAC Chairman to be elected each year” (GOLFWEEK, 4/16).
MAN OF THE PEOPLE: NBCSPORTS.com’s Rex Hoggard wrote it was “no big surprise” that McNealy was the leading vote getter among PGA Tour players. McNealy has “emerged as one of the circuit’s brightest minds” and he “made headlines last year when he discovered inefficiencies in how the Tour awards FedExCup points.” But that is “probably not why” the membership voted to put McNealy in line to be a player director starting next year on the policy board. Hoggard: “Simply put, McNealy is the rare Tour pro whose default setting is to listen, not talk. … Even though McNealy has opinions on many Tour policies he knows his first job is to listen” (NBCSPORTS.com, 4/16).
