US Open Golf TV ratings

Sunday’s coverage on Fox averaged 6.7 million viewers. That was down from 9.6 million when the U.S. Open was last played on the West Coast in 2012, which allows for the final holes to be played in prime time in much of the country.  Via AP Update: here’s the press release from Fox Sports, it only notes the average viewership in primetime for the final round (the number above is for…

Jordan Spieth golf superstar? Not so much yet, at least as far as TV ratings are concerned. Fox’s Saturday U.S. Open Golf Championship viewership fared 33% better than NBC’s coverage last year, which included no primetime coverage. But compared to the last time the tournament included primetime coverage the numbers were down 44% (4.2 million viewer average this year vs 7.6 million viewer average for the third round in 2012). via…