Although beaten on the wire on December 22 by Bernhard and Jason Langer, Tiger and Charlie Woods put on a show at the last PNC Championship. A new television record was even smashed during the first round with a 147% increase in viewers compared to 2023.
Tiger Woods, results
Although defeated in the play-off on a laser putt by Bernhard Langer, Tiger Woods, 49 years old on December 30, and his son, Charlie, 15 years old, helped make this 2024 PNC Championship a success both in sport and in television. Like this hole in one made by Charlie, his very first, under the eyes of the master, not a little proud!
Thus, according to Sports Media Watch, the end-of-year tournament pitting former Major winners against a member of their family attracted an average of 2.92 million viewers during the first round. That’s a substantial increase of 147% compared to the first round of the 2023 PNC Championship. This is simply a record for this 29-year-old event.
The second and final round on Sunday recorded an average of just under 1.42 million viewers, but it still represents a 32% increase compared to last year.
It should be remembered that this PNC Championship won by the Bernhard-Jason Langer pair marked the big return to “competition” of Tiger Woods, absent since his missed cut in July at The Open played at Royal Troon (Scotland). A good omen for 2025 as all the Tiger’s fans await his return to the PGA Tour?
One thing is certain, the presence of the former world No. 1, winner of fifteen Majors between 1997 and 2019, can only be beneficial for the US Circuit which has experienced quite significant drops in television audiences in 2024. These would have fallen by 20%.
Eldrick Tont Woods, better known as Tiger Woods (Cypress, December 30, 1975), is an American golfer.
Considered one of the best golfers of all time, as well as the best of the modern era, in his twenty-year career he won 110 professional tournaments, including 15 majors, making him the most successful player in history; he held the first position in the OWG world ranking for a total of 683 weeks, of which 281 consecutive (from June 12, 2005 to October 30, 2010), and is the only golfer to have won all four major tournaments of the modern era in the span of a single year (between 2000 and 2001).
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