This week’s debut of Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy‘s indoor golf league drew practically one million viewers on ESPN, in line with Nielsen numbers reported Thursday by Entrance Workplace Sports activities.
Though the TGL co-founders weren’t in motion, Tuesday night time’s broadcast attracted a median of 919,000 viewers in the course of the Sep 11 p.m. ET time slot.
To place that in perspective, that may be a bigger viewers than any LIV Golf broadcast on The CW in 2023 and 2024, and likewise bigger than final week’s PGA Tour season opener (The Sentry) on the Golf Channel and NBC, in line with Sports activities Media Watch.
Throughout the identical time window final 12 months on ESPN, a Duke-Pittsburgh males’s faculty basketball sport drew 717,000 viewers.
Tuesday night time’s preliminary 15-hole TGL match noticed The Bay Golf Membership defeat New York Golf Membership 9-2 on the SoFi Middle in Palm Seaside Gardens, Florida.
Woods and McIlroy each attended the match and joined ESPN play-by-play announcer Matt Barrie within the sales space.
The primary match within the six-team TGL that options Woods will occur when his Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership takes on Los Angeles Golf Membership on Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN. McIlroy’s Boston Frequent Golf will face Woods’ staff on Jan. 27.
The 15-match common season runs via March 4, adopted by the playoffs later that month.
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