Tiger! Wyndham On CBS Draws Best Non-Major Ratings In Two Years; U.S. Amateur On Fox Hits All-Time Low

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With Tiger's debut in the Wyndham Championship, both CBS and Golf Channel saw eye-opening ratings bumps over the 2014 event.

Tweeted by CBS Sports PR and noted in this unbylined AP story, the final round Nielsen 3.9 is the highest non-major since Tiger's 2013 Players win (5.7). This was also CBS best non-major audience since July 2012 (also Tiger at the AT&T National), and comes on top of an excellent final round PGA Championship showing. 

Golf Channel's Wyndham coverage saw huge boosts each day as well, even when Tiger was not in Thursday's TV window.  Round one drew .67 (+20%), and the best since 2006. Round two with Woods posting a 65, drew a 1.29, up 152% and the best ever Friday rating for the Wyndham.

Golf Channel's pre-CBS coverage saw the best evers continue Saturday (1.28 up 125%) and Sunday (1.3 overnight up 202%).

As Alex Myers notes at The Loop, the numbers blew away Open Championship ratings, even with a Grand Slam on the line (different time of day) and Saturday at Wyndham matched Saturday’s third round at the PGA Championship.

It wasn't all great ratings news as Fox Sports's first-year coverage of the U.S. Amateur saw record lows across the board, averaging somewhere between .03-.04 for weekday matches on Fox Sports 1.

On the Fox network Saturday, the U.S. Amateur semi-finals drew a .23, down 43% over Saturday last year on NBC.  Sunday's final match on Fox drew a .28 overnight, down 35%.

Both were the lowest ratings for the U.S. Amateur since Nielsen documented network television coverage started in 2003 (the weekend coverage appeared on cable in Olympic years 2004 and 2008).