Playoff Boosts PGA Championship's Ratings
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A three-way playoff helped the PGA Championship's final-round TV ratings increase 4 percent from last year.
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CBS tightened its grip on the November sweep lead with another decisive ratings win for the week of Nov. 15.
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Crazy business, this PGA Tour. How's that, you ask?
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Two weeks into the first playoff tournaments in PGA Tour history, Tim Finchem has caught on to the catch word bandied about by players and media members.
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Helped by a pair of Game 7s on Monday night, TNT&#039;s ratings for its second-round playoff games rose 22 percent over last year.
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PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem says the inaugural FedExCup playoff series will be able to celebrate an auspicious start if the last two events match the success of the first two.
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Though Fred Funk had been rather morose after missing the cut by a stroke in the 86th PGA Championship on Friday, there was great joy on Sunday.
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The PGA Tour Playoffs figured to be somewhat of a homefield advantage for someone like Vijay Singh, a three-time winner at Westchester and a past champion at TPC Boston and East Lake.
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As he addressed the media yesterday outside of Chicago, Tiger Woods invoked card-playing into a discussion about a change he'd love to see in the first PGA Tour playoffs.
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The PGA Tour&#39;s regular season ended Sunday with The Tour Championship, but for Vijay Singh it could be just the beginning. Singh shot the day&#39;s second-best score, 65, and
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Stadiums were filled to capacity. TV ratings were high. In most ways, this was another great season for the NFL. Except for this: America's favorite league took some serious hits to its image.
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When the PGA Tour took its product into the world of playoffs for 2007, there were muffled warnings about their volatile nature from a sports culture raised on team sports.
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Vijay Singh made official what we&#39;ve known for at least a year, there&#39;s nothing wrong with the world rankings, Jack Nicklaus never went through a period like this, and Tiger&#39;s &quot;slump,&quot; while bad for TV ratings, hints at a new, exciting period in men&#39;s golf
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GIVE professional golfers a sunny day with no wind, combine that with receptive greens and you have a recipe for low scores. Such were the conditions that greeted the players at Coolum for the PGA Championship
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KOHLER, Wis.  - Fiji's Vijay Singh held his  composure to win the 86th U.S. PGA Championship in a three-way  playoff on Sunday, clinching the third major title of his  career.
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The AFC and NFC championship game broadcasts had their highest combined overnight TV ratings in eight years.
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The matches that matter most are supposed to be the semifinals this weekend, but playoffs to gain a spot next year, also this weekend, have the bigger buzz.