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PGA tour continues to crush TV ratings
Posted on 5/6/25 at 10:54 am
Posted on 5/6/25 at 10:54 am
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CBS averages 2.918M viewers for Scottie Scheffler's dominating win Sunday in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, up 66% from 1.757M last year for Taylor Pendrith. Prior two years were 2.326M (Day) and 2.848M (KH Lee, Spieth 2nd). CBS for the weekend: 2.224M, up 56% from 2024.
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Sunday on CBS was the largest for the event since 2017. Golf Channel's lead-in coverage Sunday averaged 1.099M viewers, the largest ever for the event. Golf Channel lead-in for the weekend averaged 828K viewers, up 82% from 2024.
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Adding one more here: CBS says its season-to-date PGA Tour coverage is averaging 2.259M viewers, up 26% over last year
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If tweet fails to load, click here. Pretty surprising to me just how well PGA tour leadership is doing
For reference because it will be asked
LIV 2025 Final Round TV Ratings:
LIV Riyadh - 54,000 viewers
LIV Adelaide - 249,000 viewers
LIV Hong Kong - 17,000 viewers
LIV Singapore - 34,000 viewers
LIV Miami - 484,000 viewers
LIV Mexico - 110,000 viewers
LIV Korea - 48,000 viewers
All 7 events combined - 996,000
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Posted on 5/6/25 at 11:13 am to lsupride87
Pride vs. Jim board
But in all seriousness it has been a really good season for the Tour so far with viewership.
But in all seriousness it has been a really good season for the Tour so far with viewership.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 11:14 am to lsupride87
That's surprising considering this is probably the worst event from January through August.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 11:16 am to Dawgsontop34
quote:Yep.
But in all seriousness it has been a really good season for the Tour so far with viewership.
Shows the Tour is the value and not the golfer (outside of extreme outliers like Tiger/Rory select few others)
I’m not sure anyone would have agreed with that statement a mere few months ago here
I for one am surprised the little worth the golfers actually have considering it’s completely an individual sport
This post was edited on 5/6/25 at 11:18 am
Posted on 5/6/25 at 11:51 am to lsupride87
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LIV 2025 Final Round TV Ratings: LIV Riyadh - 54,000 viewers LIV Adelaide - 249,000 viewers LIV Hong Kong - 17,000 viewers LIV Singapore - 34,000 viewers LIV Miami - 484,000 viewers LIV Mexico - 110,000 viewers LIV Korea - 48,000 viewers All 7 events combined - 996,000
LIV would have folded already if they were like most leagues that can’t afford to lose this much money.
But muh world tour, more golf, expanding the game …
Posted on 5/6/25 at 11:57 am to RedHawk
Why do yall assume low viewership (in US) means losing money?
Looks like they actually had very good attendance at both events in Mexico & Korea.
Looks like they actually had very good attendance at both events in Mexico & Korea.
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But muh world tour, more golf, expanding the game
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Posted on 5/6/25 at 11:59 am to JimTiger72
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Looks like they actually had very good attendance at both events in Mexico & Korea.
You know what their attendance numbers are?
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:00 pm to lsupride87
I know it's the golf board and it's kind of slim pickings on stuff to talk about on here, but very few people care about week to week golf ratings 
Just seems like a personally vendetta between you and Jim.
LIV has to be a disappointed in it's viewership though. But I would imagine the Tours ratings would be quite a bit less if it was broadcast at 3AM.
Just seems like a personally vendetta between you and Jim. LIV has to be a disappointed in it's viewership though. But I would imagine the Tours ratings would be quite a bit less if it was broadcast at 3AM.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:07 pm to lsupride87
2.9M is way more than the Zurich got last week (1.7M). Very disappointing and guessing the Zurich is least watched tour event thus far.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:31 pm to lsupride87
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CBS averages 2.918M viewers for Scottie Scheffler's dominating win Sunday in the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, up 66% from 1.757M last year for Taylor Pendrith.
That is crazy given how shitty the field was and how uncontested the result was.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:33 pm to iwyLSUiwy
quote:two of those events listed were in the central time zone….
LIV has to be a disappointed in it's viewership though. But I would imagine the Tours ratings would be quite a bit less if it was broadcast at 3AM
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:40 pm to lsupride87
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two of those events listed were in the central time zone….
O I know. I'm just saying I don't expect a secondary golf tour to have good ratings in the middle of the night. I don't even know what "good" ratings are for LIV. It's a tour that not all that many people care about so I have no idea what they would consider a success or not. I guess in year three and on a better network you'd be hoping for growth. Again, something I have no idea if they are doing or not.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:44 pm to lsupride87
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lsupride87
Pretty sure your 17th booster gave you autism
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:50 pm to JimTiger72
quote:Lets not even take into consideration the guaranteed contract money, the millions they lay to the golf course etc to host the event
Why do yall assume low viewership (in US) means losing money?
The purse for one liv tournament is 20 million
Tell me how LIv Mexico covers just the 20 million purse amount when nobody is watching
Without a massive tv deal no golf league can come close to turning any profit
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Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:52 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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I'm just saying I don't expect a secondary golf tour to have good ratings in the middle of the night. I don't even know what "good" ratings are for LIV. It's a tour that not all that many people care about so I have no idea what they would consider a success or not. I guess in year three and on a better network you'd be hoping for growth. Again, something I have no idea if they are doing or not.
I don’t think LIV ever envisioned they would be a secondary tour or a tour most golf fans don’t care about when they handed out a billion in guaranteed contracts, pay for their TV production, and have guaranteed $25 million purses for every event.
All of those are unprecedented for a golf tour especially considering how poorly their TV ratings have been. Plus you need to factor in how much it costs to put on a huge tournament 14 times a year. They have to be hemorrhaging money every month. Lucky for them, the PIF is probably the only entity that can easily withstand such gluttonous spending.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:53 pm to lsupride87
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The purse for one liv tournament is 20 million
Isn’t it a $25 million guaranteed purse every event?
Posted on 5/6/25 at 12:55 pm to RedHawk
20 million tournament purse
Additional 5 million split amongst the teams
Additional 5 million split amongst the teams
Posted on 5/6/25 at 1:42 pm to RedHawk
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They have to be hemorrhaging money every month. Lucky for them, the PIF is probably the only entity that can easily withstand such gluttonous spending.
You say this in every post, we've all heard you. Almost every golf fan on the planet knows they are not making money.
Posted on 5/6/25 at 1:57 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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That is crazy given how shitty the field was and how uncontested the result was.
The storyline shifted to if he would break the all time scoring record.
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