Shock: Golf Ends A Bunch Of Events Around The Same Time, Ratings Stink

Even with the suspense of a Comcast Business Solutions No-Show Top Ten and a six-man playoff, the rain-expedited Wyndham ran on tape for CBS. They barely crested the dreaded 1.0 barrier as viewers rested for week’s Playoffs.

Or maybe the U.S. Amateur syphoned viewers as the Champions Tour played out on Golf Channel, with the Korn Ferry Tour regular season finale looming. A lot of good stuff for August but once again, golf jams most into a Sunday when people are trying to enjoy the outdoors. A Saturday or Monday finish apparently is too much to ask for.

Anyway, nice to see Mitch Metcalf and Showbuzzdaily back so we can see Americans would much rather watch Little League World Series regional games than the PGA Tour or U.S. Amateur. Not that it’ll humble the golfers. Ball goes too far.

It should be noted: Metcalf reports no numbers for Sunday’s U.S. Amateur mutiple-channel switch/infomercials-matter-more fiasco, except for Sunday’s Golf Channel window that managed to sneak out a win over Weather Channel’s Weekend Recharge, the 11 a.m. edition. However, the Am was no match for some NBA summer league games, reruns of awful movies, anything on the Hallmark Channel and a repeat of HLN’s Forensic Files II.