Ratings: Playoffs Off To Their Usual Non-Robust Start, '21 Women's Open Up

Sunday’s exciting final round of the 2021 BMW—elevated to the level of all time greatness because that’s the fuel a culture built on narcissism needs—drew pretty much the same rating as last year (2.23 in 2020 to 2.28 in 2021).

The bad news? The audience grew older (gasp!) as the younger set focused on the Little League World Series. But hey, the BMW beat the kids this year!

With the final round drawing a 2.28 to a 1.57 for the LLWS—take that you little wannabes—we’ll ignore that the baseball ended long before the BMW’s Cantlay-DeChambeau six-hole playoff. One mostly played on the 18th hole where, incidentally, they didn’t have a shot tracer and it kind of stood out given the prevalence of a really fake creek players tried to avoid. Live drone shots would have been stellar with the huge and loud stadium setting on 18, but maybe BMW needs to make one first, then provide it free?

Anyway, the 2021 sports weekend numbers from ShowBuzzDaily.com and the 2020 ratings by comparison:

2020 Northern Trust and Women’s Open numbers:

And reminder 4,934 that the PGA Tour and TV networks have jammed majors together in a March-to-July window, all for the Olympics every four years and below average playoff ratings.