"That’s a 15.5 percent decrease from the 4.5 million viewers that watched the same rounds on Sundays last year."
/For those of you worrying if Tiger's going to be able to make the house payment, Darren Rovell catches us up on the business side of Tiger's career post-accident. After a quote from agent Mark Steinberg about the opportunities they're passing up until the timing is right, Rovell slips this in about 2010 PGA Tour ratings.
The game of golf has clearly suffered without Woods, who has played in two fewer PGA Tour events than he did through this time last year. Nielsen data shows that an average of 3.8 million viewers have watched the PGA Tour finals rounds airing on broadcast television this year. That’s a 15.5 percent decrease from the 4.5 million viewers that watched the same rounds on Sundays last year.
Seems to me that's less of a statement about Tiger and more of a statement about the rest of the players and their "product" not able to hold its own without a star. Not a shock, but what are they actually doing about it? I'm not sure, but shouldn't alarm bells be going off?