Declining tv rankings turned a focus all through the 2024 PGA Tour season, however that’s not the case in 2025.
After CBS produced a robust West Coast swing, capped by Ludvig Åberg’s win on the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, NBC noticed a lot of the identical. Because the Mexico Open at Vidanta World, NBC and Golf Channel delivered six consecutive weeks of viewership positive factors in comparison with final 12 months.
5 of the six closing rounds had a peak viewers of over three million viewers, with The Gamers Championship having a peak viewers of 6.2 million. That’s spectacular contemplating the ultimate spherical of The Gamers skilled a four-hour climate delay. However when play resumed, Rory McIlroy shortly seized the lead and sure helped lure in eyeballs. McIlroy, in fact, defeated J.J. Spaun in a three-hole playoff the next day, which aired on the Golf Channel. Viewership of that combination reached 1.5 million, making it the second-highest weekday whole on Golf Channel over the previous 20 years, trailing solely Day One of many 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.
This previous week’s Texas Youngsters’s Houston Open, which noticed McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler contend till the tip, peaked with 4.3 million viewers, the second highest whole of this six-week stretch. Min Woo Lee bested Scheffler and Gary Woodland by a stroke to say his first PGA Tour title.
General, the final six closing rounds on NBC and Peacock have averaged 2.7 million viewers, up 13% over this similar set of occasions in 2024. When together with general weekend protection, NBC and Peacock averaged 2.2 million viewers, a ten% improve in comparison with 2024.
NBC will air this week’s Valero Texas Open in San Antonio, a discipline that options 27 gamers who will compete in subsequent week’s Masters Match at Augusta Nationwide. Ludvig Åberg headlines the sector, however the intriguing storylines encompass gamers like Woodland, Ben Griffin, and Bud Cauley — all of whom are enjoying properly, but do not need a spot in subsequent week’s discipline. A win at TPC San Antonio would shortly change that, simply as Akshay Bhatia did final 12 months.
As they’ve for the final 69 years, CBS will as soon as once more air weekend protection of The Masters subsequent week. Their seventieth consecutive Masters broadcast will embrace prolonged hours, with Paramount streaming protection from Midday to 2 p.m. ET on Saturday and Sunday. CBS will then start its broadcast at 2 p.m. ET and conclude at 7 p.m. ET.
Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Taking part in By. Comply with him on X @jack_milko.
