Sports Ratings Tracker

Final round coverage of Scottie Scheffler’s six-stroke PGA Championship victory averaged 4.76 million viewers on CBS, down 4% from Xander Schauffele’s win last year (4.96M).

Scheffler’s drama-free win — which averaged 6.8 million during the final hour of competition (5:45-6:45 PM ET) — faced competition from an NBA playoff Game 7 for the second-straight year. (Nuggets-Thunder averaged 6.34 million.)

See this article for a full report on PGA Championship numbers.

Thursday’s opening round of the PGA Championship averaged 955,000 viewers on ESPN, down from the past two years (1.1M each year). Viewership peaked at 1.1 million in the 6:30 PM ET quarter-hour.