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PGA Championship has most-watched final round in 5 years, peaked at 8 million viewers
Posted on 5/19/26 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 5/19/26 at 4:54 pm
Guess it wasn't such a tough watch after all the complaining by certain media, fans, and players.
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Posted on 5/19/26 at 5:36 pm to The Pirate King
Most of the media, fans, players have been following golf for a lot longer than the newbies who started following within the last few years who are boosting the ratings of every tournament now.
The game has grown.
The game has grown.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 5:51 pm to The Pirate King
Really neat story about why Rai uses iron covers on My Golf Spy.
Very respectful person.
Very respectful person.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 6:20 pm to The Pirate King
I watched it, but wish they would have set the course up differently on Sunday. The Thursday, Friday, Saturday setup got them a bunched field with some big names. Should have turned them loose on Sunday instead of having guys playing to middle of greens and two putting.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 6:49 pm to Swagga
My impression of the tournament was the course and the fan reaction to it. If people were bothered by the setup at Aronimink, just wait till Shinnecock.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 4:08 am to Swagga
The scores were pretty low on Sunday. Someone literally tied a PGA Championship record with a 63. JT shot 65. Rai went crazy on the back nine. Course was gettable on Sunday.
This post was edited on 5/21/26 at 5:19 am
Posted on 5/20/26 at 7:42 am to bstaceyau19
quote:Not remotely the same
people were bothered by the setup at Aronimink, just wait till Shinnecock.
The criticism of Aronamink isn’t that it was too hard. Around 35 players shot par or better. That’s pretty standard.
Aronamink was very hard to make birdie overall, but very easy to make par. Shinnecock is hard to make birdie, and if you mess up very easy to make double bogey or worse
The setup of Aronamink would always lead to bunched leaderboard like we saw, but we also had only one real electric moment Sunday with rai’s putt on 17
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:44 am to lsupride87
And his bunker shot on 13
Posted on 5/20/26 at 8:56 am to lsupride87
I thought Aronimink was awesome.
Would love to see a US Open there.
Would love to see a US Open there.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 9:05 am to CBandits82
84% of the holes at Aronamink resulted in Par or Bogey, by far the highest on tour
US Open you want to see that number be far far lower.
US Open you want to see that number be far far lower.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 9:19 am to lsupride87
Aaron Rai played the last 10 holes at 6 under. That was some great golf. Everyone was waiting for someone to make a move on Sunday and it just happened to be a guy no one was expecting some we have to now downplay his great play and say the course was setup improperly.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 9:27 am to Choupique19
It’s not improper or unfair. It’s just factual the course produced a shite ton of pars.
Not many big scores or birdies
Not many big scores or birdies
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 9:27 am
Posted on 5/20/26 at 9:28 am to Choupique19
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Everyone was waiting for someone to make a move on Sunday and it just happened to be a guy no one was expecting some we have to now downplay his great play and say the course was setup improperly.
People were complaining about the set up way before Sunday. Rory's comments that got everyone's panties in a twist were before the weekend (I think). Giving Rai his due while also questioning the course and course set up is ok.
If their plan was to have a bunched leaderboard that lead to an exciting Sunday, it didn't work. That could be because everyone but Rai shite the bed. It was still the result.
Shinnecock should show everyone how different these two places can be. I still enjoyed the tournament and prefer this to the typical birdiefests that the PGA tour is.
High risk high reward (Shinnecock) > Low risk low reward (Aronimink) > Low risk high reward (TPC Craig Ranch, at least before their renovation last year)
This post was edited on 5/20/26 at 9:30 am
Posted on 5/20/26 at 11:36 am to DestrehanTiger
The PGA Championship should be a scorers tournament. Rewarding aggressive play.
The US Open is the least enjoyable tournament to watch.
The US Open is the least enjoyable tournament to watch.
Posted on 5/20/26 at 1:16 pm to lsupride87
The (valid) criticism of Aronimink was that if you played really well you shot -2 and if you played below average you shot +1. Contrast that with Masters and British opens where you can shoot -5 or -6 if you’re on but can also easily shoot +4 if you’re off.
US open doesn’t typically give you the low scoring options, but if you’re off one day you can put up a +7 round easily.
US open doesn’t typically give you the low scoring options, but if you’re off one day you can put up a +7 round easily.
Posted on 5/21/26 at 8:46 am to tigerfan88
I thoroughly liked the setup, the outcome and the players bitching. When they bitch imo it’s great because you have made them uncomfortable from their norm and to me that’s fun to watch.
I was there on property and walked all the holes from outside of the ropes and thought it was extremely fair.
Again, for me, I don’t want birdie fest for majors, I want pros out of their comfort zone fighting to make a handful of birdies.
I was there on property and walked all the holes from outside of the ropes and thought it was extremely fair.
Again, for me, I don’t want birdie fest for majors, I want pros out of their comfort zone fighting to make a handful of birdies.
Posted on 5/21/26 at 9:20 am to toots-N-scoots
quote:
I thoroughly liked the setup, the outcome and the players bitching. When they bitch imo it’s great because you have made them uncomfortable from their norm and to me that’s fun to watch.
I was there on property and walked all the holes from outside of the ropes and thought it was extremely fair.
Again, for me, I don’t want birdie fest for majors, I want pros out of their comfort zone fighting to make a handful of birdies.
This. All of the players complaining can shut up. Going into Sunday there were like 30 players withing 3 shots of the lead and a ton of them were big names. That's good for golf. At the end of Saturday the announcers were legit giddy on air talking about looking forward to Sunday. And obviously the fans/viewers were too given the ratings. I wasn't pulling for Rai but props to him, he went out and won it and it overall was a great tournament.
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