July 21, 2014

Open Championship On ESPN Down 28%

July 21, 2014/ Geoff Shackelford

Pete Dougherty reports a 2.6 overnight for the final round with Rory McIlroy holding off Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia.

The rating is a 28% drop from last year's Mickelson win at Muirfield and ESPN's lowest since airing the Open exclusively beginning in 2010.

Update on 2014-07-22 17:30 by Geoff

**Classic Sports does its annual accounting of final day shots shown. All but one Rory shot shown, 7th place finisher Charl Schwartzel never made it on the air.

Geoff Shackelford

Geoff Shackelford is a Senior Writer for Golfweek magazine, a weekly contributor to Golf Channel's Morning Drive, is co-host of The Ringer's ShackHouse is the author of eleven books.