The final round of the 2025 Players Championship didn’t feature a star-packed leaderboard and was altered twice due to Mother Nature: first with (way) earlier than normal tee times and then with a four-hour delay. That didn’t keep people from tuning in. A lot of people.

TV ratings for Sunday’s broadcast on NBC were up slightly from last year, continuing a positive trend for the PGA Tour in 2025. Sports Business Journal’s Josh Carpenter reported on Tuesday that coverage averaged 3.6 million viewers and peaked at 6.2 million viewers.

Those numbers were higher than the 3.5 million and 6 million figures for the 2024 Players Championship, where Scottie Scheffler held off Wyndham Clark, Xander Schauffele and Brian Harman by a shot to repeat as the champion at TPC Sawgrass.

Due to Sunday’s severe storms, a three-hole playoff between Rory McIlroy and J.J. Spaun had to wait until Monday, when McIlroy cruised to a second title at the PGA Tour’s flagship event. The four-time major champ—and arguably the tour’s top draw without Tiger Woods—was by far the biggest name in the mix during this year’s final round. But there was plenty of drama with Spaun coming up inches short of winning in regulation on the 72nd hole.

These new numbers come on the heels of ratings for the PGA Tour’s eight-week West Coast Swing on CBS being up 17 percent from 2024.

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