On a weekend where Jordan Spieth finished out of the top ten, Phil Mickelson more than picked up the slack.
Final round coverage of the PGA Tour Pebble Beach Pro-Am earned a 3.4 overnight rating on CBS Sunday afternoon, up 31% from last year (2.6), up 62% from 2014 (2.1) and the event’s highest final round overnight since 2012 — which featured Mickelson and Tiger Woods in a final pairing (5.1).
Mickelson entered this year’s final round atop the leaderboard and finished in second place.
Sunday’s 3.4 overnight is easily a PGA season-high, with the caveat that there have been only six telecasts on over-the-air TV thus far. The previous mark was a 2.3 for the final round of the Phoenix Open one week earlier.
The final round was the top non-NBA sporting event of the weekend, comfortably topping NASCAR’s Sprint Unlimited the previous night (2.6).
Third round action the previous day had a 1.8 overnight, even with last year and up 64% from ’14 (1.1).
(Sun. numbers via ShowBuzz Daily)
