Scottie Scheffler's Tour Championship win garners 2,700,000 viewers, 13% down from last year

The 2024 PGA Tour season came to an end with Scottie Scheffler winning the Tour Championship. Winning the FedEx Cup playoffs in dominant fashion, Scheffler took home $25 million in prize money.

However, viewership for the Tour Championship and Scheffler's victory saw a downward trend compared to the previous year. This has been a consistent pattern throughout the 2024 PGA Tour season, with several tournaments underperforming when compared to the last few years.

This year, the Tour Championship reportedly garnered 2,700,000 viewers, a 13% decline from the previous year. Viktor Hovland's victory in 2023 caught the eye of 3,100,000 million viewers per Josh Carpenter of the Sports Business Journal. He wrote on X (formerly Twitter):

"NBC draws 2.7M viewers for Scottie Scheffler's four-shot win in the Tour Championship on Sunday (no streaming included). That's down 13% from last year: 3.1M on CBS when Viktor Hovland won by five (not on Labor Day weekend)."

Earlier this year, the 3M Open had 1,323,000 viewers, a 21% decline from the 1,665,000 viewers the year before. The CJ Cup Byron Nelson also saw a 24% decline from the previous year, with 1,757,000 viewers tuning in to watch this year compared to 2,326,000 viewers in 2023.

2024 Tour Championship full leaderboard explored ft. Scottie Scheffler

Scottie Scheffler was the clear leader going into the 2024 Tour Championship. With a 1200-point lead over Xander Schauffele, Scheffler also had a 10-stroke advantage over the rest of the field. Ultimately, he managed to close out the win, with Collin Morikawa coming second.

Scottie Scheffler -30
2 Collin Morikawa -26
3 Sahith Theegala -24
T4 Russell Henley -19
T4 Adam Scott -19
T4 Xander Schauffele -19
7 Sungjae Im -18
8 Wyndham Clark -17
T9 Rory McIlroy -16
T9 Hideki Matsuyama -16
T9 Shane Lowry -16
T12 Viktor Hovland -15
T12 Sam Burns -15
T14 Justin Thomas -14
T14 Taylor Pendrith -14
16 Ludvig Åberg -12
T17 Robert MacIntyre -11
T17 Matthieu Pavon -11
T17 Patrick Cantlay -11
20 Tommy Fleetwood -10
T21 Keegan Bradley -8
T21 Byeong Hun An -8
T23 Billy Horschel -6
T23 Aaron Rai -6
T23 Tony Finau -6
26 Akshay Bhatia -5
T27 Chris Kirk -3
T27 Sepp Straka -3
T29 Christiaan Bezuidenhout +3
T29 Tom Hoge +3

While the final score showed the totals with the stroke advantage each golfer had, there was also an alternative scoreboard that was created that showed the gross total of the golfers. Take a look below:

1.Collin Morikawa, -22 (-26)
2. Sahith Theegala, -21 (-24)
3. Scottie Scheffler, -20 (-30)
4. Russell Henley, -17 (-19)
5. Adam Scott, -16 (-19)
6. Sungjae Im, -15 (-18)
7. Justin Thomas, -14 (-14)
T8. Wyndham Clark (-17), Shane Lowry (-16), Viktor Hovland (-15), Taylor Pendrith (-14): -13
12. Rory McIlroy (-16): -12
T13. Xander Schauffele (-19), Sam Burns (-15): -11
15. Matthieu Pavon (-11): -10
T16. Hideki Matsuyama (-16), Robert MacIntyre (-11), Tommy Fleetwood (-10): -9
T19. Ludvig Aberg (-12), Patrick Cantlay (-11): -7
T21. Byeong Hun An (-8), Aaron Rai (-6): -6
23. Billy Horschel (-6): -5
T24. Tony Finau (-6), Akshay Bhatia (-5), Chris Kirk (-3): -3
T27. Keegan Bradley (-8), Sepp Straka (-3): -2
T29. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (+3), Tom Hoge (+3): +3

Collin Morikawa finished first in the gross standings, with Sahith Theegala coming second and Scottie Scheffler finishing third.

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