Rory Mcilroy’s win at the 2025 player championship withdrew large crowds in the country and on TV. Brandel Chamblee noticed.
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PGA Tour presented a Massive player -successful championship Last week, generating impressive television ratings that do well for the future of the tournament. In the light of those ratings, TV analyst Brandel Chamblee took the opportunity to take Liv Golf in office.
He did this with not one, but two posts on X.
Chamblee mocks Livi’s ratings
Tuesday, Josh Carpenter of Sports Business Newspaper Posted preliminary TV estimates for Championship In X. In a post, he reported that Monday’s Play between Rory Mcilroy and JJ Spaun drew 1.5 million viewers across TV and digital platforms from 9-10 AM, which Carpenter called a large, large number of day in the cable “.
Within an hour, Chamblee responded to Carpenter’s post with his own. But Chamblee’s focus was not on PGA Tour’s success. Instead, he wanders Liv by mentioning their poor evaluations on TV.
“Compare this with the Livi final last year that ended in the first time on the East Coast with Rahm winning … which drew 55,000 viewers,” Chamblee wrote to X.
For the record, Jon Rahm reached the 2024 Liv Golf Chicago Livo title last September. And the Chamblee numbers are turned off. The second round of the tournament Drew 134,000 viewersWith the third and last round that struck only 89,000, even higher than the Chamblee figure.
Last year, Liv Golf events appeared on the CW cable network. This season, Upsart League Signed a new deal with Fox Sports. But ratings in the Fox channel family have been disappointing as well. Last round of this year’s Liv Golf Rijad event Drew 54,000 Meaning viewers on FS1that may be the figure Chamblee is noticing.
Chamblee targets Livi players
But he did not do yet. Just a few hours later, Chamblee responded to another X post from Carpenter. This Carpenter Post reported that the player championship withdrew an average audience of 3.6 million Sunday, from 3.5 million last year, with a peak audience of 6.2 million, just over 6 million peak audiences for Scheffler players’ 2024.
Chamblee’s response to this post was longer and in strong words, claiming that “Liv is dying a slow costly death” before returning his anger to Liv players.
“PGA Tour is killing him and Liv is dying a slow costly death,” Chamblee wrote. “Livi players have the seller’s repentance. They want the meritocratic cachet competing at the highest level they give them, but they have shown in their choice to play for Liv they will better have the first money and sue for tape. Trying to blur the difference between gift and reward.”
He went on, “The public sees them towards them and chooses to see those who prefer to play for history and inheritance.”
Where does the PGA Tour-Liv agreement stand?
Earlier this year, there was hope that a reunion between PGA Tour and Liv Golf Pro was immediate. Many figures on the tournament side, including Jay Monahan and Rory Mcilroy, intimed that liv players could appear at PGA Tour events before the end of this year.
But in recent weeks, the negotiations seemed to have stalled. on The press conference of his player championship last weekMonahan pointed to “EBBS and Flows” of negotiations. He added the possible ominous note that while they are still working to unite both sides, PGA Tour “will not do so in a way to reduce the strength of our platform or the very real moment we have with our fans and our partners.”
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