This Week In Golf Channel Ratings: PGA Tour's Season-Opening Final Round Trounced By The Big Break's Season Opener!

The PGA Tour's season opening Frys.com Open--drawing a robust 0.1 final round rating on the Golf Channel--easily outdrew the Big Break XXX Preview episode!

Uh, but not the Big Break XXX season premier its ownself. That's right, way more people watched a Golf Channel reality show than the final round of the PGA Tour's season-opener. Remember that PGA Tour players next time you think you're really special and feel just in berating a transportation volunteer.

But hey, the season-opening PGA Tour event nudged the same day's Champions Tour final round by 60,000 viewers! And we know when people talk pop culture icons, Champions Tour is at the top of the list.

Yes, the fall, wraparound, calendar-year, playing opportunities for has-beens, Masters invitation-friendly and FedExCup points eligible golf debuts as must not see TV. Based on the numbers posted by Son Of The Bronx for the week of October 7-13, the Frys.com Open was on par with the 34th most watched show on the NFL Network, a Tuesday night airing of NFL Total Access. One of the giant franchises of American television!

There was good news for Golf Channel as even the week's paltry 70,000 prime time viewers/56,000 all-day viewer average was up over a year ago when they did 56,000/41,000.