Tiger Woods was routed at his personal recreation Tuesday evening, however his defeat was nonetheless extra interesting to sports activities followers than the NBA.
Woods’ TGL debut was watched by greater than 1 million viewers, up 9% from the league’s first match final week and extra head-to-head than the NBA drew on TNT.
For the second consecutive week, the TGL produced a one-sided match with Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks Golf Membership falling 12-1 to the Los Angeles Golf Membership. Albeit within the new digital golf league, it marked Woods’ first aggressive golf since lacking the reduce on the Open Championship final July.
Tuesday’s match peaked at 1.13 million viewers from 8:30 to eight:45 p.m. ET, based on the Sports activities Enterprise Journal. The match technically ended at 8:50 p.m. and the telecast ended at 9:18 p.m.
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Head-to-head, the Cavaliers-Pacers recreation on TNT attracted 956,000 viewers, adopted by 853,000 viewers for the Nuggets-Mavericks recreation that began at 9:35 p.m. The TGL match additionally practically doubled the 587,000 viewers for Duke’s blowout of Miami in a males’s basketball recreation that adopted on ESPN, based on the SBJ.
The TGL has offered an total enhance within the time slot for ESPN. A Syracuse-Pitt males’s basketball recreation in the identical window final yr produced 566,000 viewers.
Woods’ workforce absorbed the second consecutive rout to kick off TGL’s inaugural season, following Bay Golf Membership’s 9-2 victory over New York Golf Membership on Jan. 7. That match drew practically 1 million viewers, and eclipsed the viewers numbers for any LIV Golf broadcast on The CW over the previous two years.
Woods’ workforce could have an opportunity for fast redemption when it faces Boston Widespread Golf within the debut for Rory McIlroy’s workforce Jan. 27.
The 15-match common season runs via March 4, adopted by the playoffs later that month.
