For those of you that hate watching Tiger Woods, the inside advice to get the media to stop writing so darn much about him was simple: stop clicking on him.
And, as Woods struggled throughout this season with several career-worst rounds in the 80s, many of you did — or at least much less than you did when he was still winning golf tournaments on the reg’.
However, the 14-time major champion provided compelling theater this past week at the Wyndham Championship, climbing to the top of the 36-hole leaderboard with Tom Hoge in what turned out to be a must-win situation to complete and 11th-hour bid to make the PGA Tour playoffs. Woods failed in that quest, but still posted a T-10 in Greensboro for his best finish of the season. The tease was enough to get a lot of you to pop the channel to CBS over the weekend and see if Woods could pull off the improbable.
The final round of the Wyndham delivered a 3.9 Nielsen rating, a 143 percent increase over last year’s final round, in which Camilo Villegas came back to win. The rating also is the best for a non-major on any network since in May 2013 when NBC garnered a 5.7 rating for Woods’ win at The Players. The rating was also the highest for a non-major on CBS since Woods’ win at the AT&T National in July 2012, a day after a derecho closed Congressional Country Club to fans and most volunteers.
By comparison, the Jason Day-Jordan Spieth battle on Sunday at the PGA Championship drew a 4.4 rating.
So, we’ll keep on writing about the guy, at least for a little while longer.
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