PGA Tour season-long viewership finishes a tick up from 2025
Weekend audiences on NBC and CBS averaged 2.5 million viewers.
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CBS sees strongest PGA Tour viewership since 2006
PGA Tour telecasts on CBS are averaging 3.50 million viewers.
PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp on working around NFL rights situation: ‘We may go early, we may not’
Rolapp also revealed that he engaged both current and potential TV partners on the PGA Tour's overhauled competitive model.
Jim Nantz delivers emotional on-air tribute after tragic passing of production staffer Bryce Adair
Adair, 31, passed away this weekend due to injuries sustained in a car crash on Wednesday.
PGA Championship earns most-watched final round in 5 years for CBS
CBS averaged 5.76 million viewers for Aaron Rai's win on Sunday.
Rory McIlroy naming golf swings is more impressive than winning The Masters
How did he do that?
CBS will not be part of ESPN’s PGA Championship early-round coverage this year
No Jim Nantz until Saturday this year.
NBC golf analyst Kevin Kisner rips CBS Masters broadcast: ‘I was so f*cking confused the entire time’
"So your entire Masters coverage is a fantasy world. It's bulls---. Whatever we all watch has already happened seven minutes ago."
CBS has rough Masters Sunday for Rory McIlroy victory
CBS lost McIlroy's approach on 18, Cam Young's second shot, and then chose a camera angle on the winning putt that left viewers wondering if he'd missed.
Masters fan yells ‘Give me back my son!’, as heard on CBS broadcast
"GIVE ME BACK MY SON!"
John Goodman-narrated open, Jim Nantz welcome CBS viewers to the Masters
"Generation to generation to generation, Augusta National remains an American treasure. A gift to the game."
CBS Sports adds Johnson Wagner to PGA Tour broadcast team
Popular Golf Channel analyst Johnson Wagner will be the newest addition to PGA Tour coverage on CBS Sports in 2026.
Colt Knost replaces Ian Baker-Finch on CBS golf coverage
"Colt has become a valued voice on our team, bringing insight, energy, and his engaging personality to every broadcast."
PGA Tour could move to 20-event season, per report
The new structure would cut the current schedule in half.
PGA Tour sees huge viewership gains for 2025 season
Weekend viewership increased 22% versus last season.
CBS golf coverage draws best audience since 2018
CBS golf telecasts averaged 2.97 million viewers in 2025, including major championships.
Veteran CBS golf analyst Ian Baker-Finch announces retirement
"After 19 incredible years as a golf analyst with CBS Sports and a remarkable 30-year journey in the industry, I am announcing my retirement from broadcasting."
Rory McIlroy jokes about, shows off gray hairs in post-round interview
"I'm getting a little gray as everyone probably knows..."
CBS hits four-year viewership high for Travelers Championship
Keegan Bradley's come-from-behind win over Tommy Fleetwood averaged 3.52 million viewers.
Jim Nantz had quite the Canadian Open references
"A Kiwi wins at the Osprey!"
Scottie Scheffler is not the ratings dud we thought he was
PGA Championship sees slight tick down for Scheffler’s blowout win
Viewership was down 4% versus last year.
Bryson DeChambeau praised for partaking in PGA Championship interview after loss
"You don't have to take the time to do this. So we appreciate it."
More people watched a replay of last year’s PGA Tour event than LIV Golf on Sunday
LIV Mexico averaged just 110,000 viewers on FS1 while the PGA Tour, which aired two hours of replays, averaged 1.63 million viewers.
Power outage takes PGA Tour event on CBS, Golf Channel off the air
The technical difficulties could bode well for the LPGA and LIV Golf, both of which are also airing tournaments.
Easter holiday lifts RBC Heritage to highest rating in 23 years
CBS delivered the most-watched final round for the event in 23 years.
Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo pans CBS coverage of Masters for ‘jinxing’ Rory McIlroy
"They went on and on and on, much too premature."
CBS hits seven-year high for Rory McIlroy’s Masters win
The network averaged 12.71 million viewers for McIlroy's historic win.
Jim Nantz, CBS meet the moment for Rory McIlroy’s Masters roller coaster
CBS captures the many highs and lows of Rory McIlroy’s unbelievable Masters win
An intense CBS focus on McIlroy paid off when he eventually won, but that almost didn't happen.
Sports media reacts to Rory McIlroy’s third round
"It's starting to feel like destiny."
The Masters broadcast schedule needs to get with the times
The PGA Tour’s 2025 ratings rebound is misleading
10 of the PGA Tour's 13 final round broadcasts so far this year have declined versus viewership from 2023.
CBS won’t highlight hurricane damage to Augusta National during Masters
"We're covering the tournament the way it is presented to us and the way the club would like to present it."
Don’t expect the PGA Tour to air fewer commercials anytime soon
"Commercial inventory is one element of the value that our partners generate through our partnership with the PGA Tour."
Tiger Woods recounts mother’s impact during Genesis Invitational broadcast: ‘Mom was my rock’
Woods was initially supposed to compete at The Genesis Invitational prior to his mother's passing.
PGA Tour draws audience 50-times bigger than LIV Golf last weekend
The PGA Tour averaged 2.87 million viewers for its final round while LIV Golf averaged just 52,000.
CBS’s Colt Knost takes dig at LIV over poor ratings during WM Phoenix Open
"That’s 12,000 times two if my math is right."
CBS, PGA Tour see audience lift for Rory McIlroy win at Pebble Beach
Sunday's final round was the most-watched for the tournament since 2021.
