Rory McIlroy won the 2025 Players Championship, attracting a large crowd on site and on TV. Brandel Chamblee noticed.
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The PGA Tour presented a successful player championship last week, which brought impressive TV ratings to the Tour’s future. Given these ratings, TV analyst Brandel Chamblee took the opportunity to bring Liv Golf to the mission.
He did not do one, but two posts on X.
Chamblee simulation LIV score
Tuesday, Josh Carpenter Sports Business Magazine In one article, he posted a preliminary TV rating for the player’s championship in one article. The playoffs between Rory McIlroy and JJ Spaun attracted 1.5 million viewers on TV and digital platforms from 9-10 a.m. ET, which Carpenter called “the big ones online at the time, the big ones online at that time.”
Within an hour, Chamblee answered Carpenter’s post with his own post. But Charblee’s focus is not on the success of the PGA Tour. Instead, he mentioned his poor TV ratings and laughed at LIV.
Chamblee wrote on X: “Comparing this to Liv’s finale last year, Ram won 55,000 viewers, which attracted 55,000 viewers.
For record, Jon Rahm won the 2024 LIV individual championship at Liv Golf last September. Chamblee’s number is closed. The second round of the game attracted 134,000 spectators, and the third and final round hit only 89,000, but still above Charblee’s figures.
Last year, LIV golf events were shown on the CW cable network. Upstart League has signed a new deal with Fox Sports this season. However, the Fox Channel family’s ratings are also disappointing. The final round of the LIV Golf Riyadh event this year attracted an average audience of FS1, which is probably Chamblee’s performance.
Chamblee targets LIV players
But he hasn’t finished yet. A few hours later, Chamblee responded to another X post from Carpenter. The Carpenter Post reported that the average player champion attracted 3.6 million on Sunday, up from 3.5 million last year, with a peak audience of 6.2 million, slightly higher than the 6 million peak audience Scheffler won in 2024.
Chamble responded longer and strongly to the post, claiming that “Liv was dying expensive deaths before he got angry with Liv Players.”
“The PGA Tour is killing it, and Liv dies from expensive slow deaths,” Charblee wrote. “The repenters of Liv players all want to compete at the highest level, but they choose their choice, they prefer to have money first and try to blur gifts and rewards.”
He continued: “The audience can see them through them and choose to watch those who like to work for history and legacy.”
Where is the trading position of PGA Tour-Liv?
Earlier this year, it seemed like the unity between the PGA Tour and the LIV golf pros. Many characters on the tour, including Jay Monahan and Rory McIlroy, have suggested that LIV players may be on the PGA Tour by the end of this year.
But negotiations seem to have stalled over the past few weeks. Monahan pointed out the “elevations and downs” of the negotiations at last week’s player championship press conference. He added that the potentially ominous note was that while they were still working to bring the two sides together, the PGA Tour “will not do it in a way that reduces the strength of the platform or the real motivation we have with fans and partners.”
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