Ranking the most watched Masters rounds in golf history
The Masters is unlike any other sporting event. It happens every April at the same course, with the same flowers in bloom, the same Par 3 Contest the day before, and the same roars rolling through Augusta National’s pine trees like thunder. And yet every year it manages to feel like the first time.
That quality, the sense that something genuinely irreplaceable is happening, is why the numbers it puts on television are so different from any other event in golf. Most sports have a rotating cast of heroes and venues. The Masters always comes back to Augusta.
The drama changes. The place does not. MORE : All about where and when your 10 favorite sports began And when the right drama unfolds on the right Sunday afternoon, Americans stop what they are doing in extraordinary numbers to watch it.
This list ranks the most-watched Masters rounds in television history, measured by the total audience they drew, the stories that generated those numbers, and what each one says about the sport’s ability to stop a nation cold when the moment is right. 10. Tiger Woods, 2019 Tiger Woods celebrates winning the 2019 Masters during the final round of the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Augusta, Georgia.
[ALLEN EYESTONE/FOR THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE] Average viewers: ~9. 8 million Tiger had not won a major in eleven years. He had four back surgeries behind him, and most people had quietly accepted that it was probably over.
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