Overview

• Sunday’s final round on NBC averaged 4.49 million viewers, up 34% year over year and the most‑watched PGA Tour round of the season outside the majors, per Nielsen.
• Tommy Fleetwood ended a long PGA Tour drought with the victory and collected a reported $10 million winner’s payout.
• The postseason upswing extended across NBC’s playoff slate: FedEx St. Jude drew 3.6 million viewers (up 71%) and the BMW Championship averaged 3.5 million (up 43%).
• This year’s Tour Championship was the first under a standard 72‑hole stroke‑play format after the midseason abandonment of the controversial starting‑strokes system.
• LIV Golf’s Michigan Team Championship on Fox averaged about 422,000 viewers, underscoring the stark audience gap with the PGA Tour’s finale.