PGA Championship earns most-watched final round in 5 years for CBS
An unusually bunched leaderboard helped lift CBS to its best PGA Championship viewership in five years. CBS averaged 5. 76 million viewers for the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday, a 21% year-over-year increase versus Scottie Scheffler’s runaway win at Quail Hollow in 2025.
It was the most-watched final round of the PGA Championship…
Credit: Bill Streicher-Imagn Images An unusually bunched leaderboard helped lift CBS to its best PGA Championship viewership in five years. CBS averaged 5. 76 million viewers for the final round of the PGA Championship on Sunday, a 21% year-over-year increase versus Scottie Scheffler’s runaway win at Quail Hollow in 2025.
It was the most-watched final round of the PGA Championship since 2021, when a 50-year-old Phil Mickelson improbably won at Kiawah in front of a television audience of 6. 58 million viewers. Aaron Rai’s back-nine surge this year peaked at 8.
02 million viewers, with the final hour of Rai’s round averaging 7. 83 million viewers for CBS. CBS Sports delivered the most-watched final round of the PGA Championship in five years, and coverage peaked with more than 8 million viewers: pic.