LIV Golf scores fell much more for closing spherical in Tucson
LIV Golf has main star energy, however not enough buzz to draw a big TV audience to The CW.
Sports Business Journal reports that LIV Golf averaged 284,000 viewers for the second spherical of its event in Tucson on Saturday — and the quantity went all the way down to 274,000 for the ultimate spherical on Sunday.
The event was received by Danny Lee.
About 24 % of houses had been unable to look at the event as a result of their native CW affiliate opted to hold different programming, in accordance with the report.
The numbers additionally don’t embrace streaming or out-of-home viewers.
For comparability, the PGA Tour’s Valpar Championship averaged 1.6 million viewers on Saturday and a couple of.6 million viewers on Sunday on NBC, according to Showbuzz Daily.
LIV Golf scores have didn’t impress since the Saudi-backed tour’s debut on The CW in February.
LIV Golf has poached plenty of high-profile golfers from the PGA Tour, together with Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Cameron Smith, Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau, Talor Gooch, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen, Patrick Reed, Bubba Watson and Ian Poulter.
The upstart golf tour needed to spend gobs of cash to sway these abilities, included a reported $200 million for Mickelson and about $125 million for Johnson — and these assured sums had been earlier than LIV pays out huge purses for successful their occasions.
LIV Golf is headed up by Greg Norman.
Final week, PGA Tour loyalist Fred {Couples} made fun of the struggles LIV Golf was having with its TV deal.
“It was on the CW a pair weeks in the past, or no matter that channel everyone is laughing about,” {Couples} stated.
“I turned it on 3 times. It was so unhealthy, I couldn’t even watch anybody that I preferred. They don’t present ’em. … Who received the final one? I don’t even know.”
In equity, The CW shouldn’t be a community identified for its dwell sporting occasions, and it will be attention-grabbing to see how LIV Golf would have accomplished on a extra conventional channel had it landed a cope with one among them.