Shot chart from NBC Sunday Players Championship telecast - 2015

I tracked the televised strokes by player during the NBC airing of the final round of the Players Championship. NBC showed 382 regulation strokes from the Sunday round. The telecast began at 2pm ET and regulation play ended at 6:48, so this worked out to 1.33 strokes per minute - the highest average of the six events I have tracked.

Note: NBC obviously televised all 39 shots from the playoff, but I did not count these in the table so as to provide a truer comparison to the tracking for other tournaments.

With a crowded leaderboard, NBC spread the wealth as eight golfers received coverage of at least 20 shots (and 10 players were shown for at least 10 strokes). Sergio Garcia who led the event for much of the afternoon was on the air for 54 strokes. NBC devoted 62% of the televised shots to the final three pairings. However, eventual winner Rickie Fowler, who started in the 8th pairing and was well back in the pack until late in his round, was only shown for 12 strokes prior to the playoff. Nine players in the field were featured more frequently.

NBC showed a total of 34 golfers (including a five-stroke taped package of Tiger Woods who had finished before the network took the air). Everyone who finished higher than T17 was shown for at least one shot.

For comparison, see the Sunday shot chart I compiled from the 2015 Masters (note: that post contains links to the charts from the 2014 majors).

Here is the complete shot chart (from regulation play):

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Sergio Garcia	54	T2	3
Kevin Kisner	49	T2	1
Bill Haas	38	T4	2
Ben Martin	34	T4	2
Justin Thomas	34	T24	3
Chris Kirk	28	T13	1
Rory McIlroy	22	T8	12
Kevin Na	21	T6	5
Brian Harmon	15	T8	12
Rickie Fowler	12	1	8
Bubba Watson	9	T42	10
Rory Sabbatini	7	T6	11
Billy Horschel	7	T13	7
John Senden	5	T8	9
David Toms	5	T13	16
Tiger Woods	5	T69	35
Jamie Donaldson	4	T8	21
Adam Scott	4	T38	10
Zach Johnson	3	T13	13
Derek Fathauer	3	T17	8
Ian Poulter	3	T30	11
Martin Kaymer	3	T51	18
Pat Perez	2	T17	6
Chesson Hadley	2	T24	6
Charley Hoffman	2	T30	19
Sangmoon Bae	2	T30	23
Charles Howell III	2	T56	15
Ryo Ishikawa	1	T8	7
Jerry Kelly	1	T17	5
Scott Brown	1	T30	4
Steve Stricker	1	T38	20
Fredrik Jacobson	1	T42	23
Matt Every	1	T42	24
Luke Guthrie	1	T51	16
others	0
total	382

Note: The Pairing column reflects the tee time groupings in reverse order, so 1 =  final pairing, 2 = next-to-last, etc.

Athlete/analyst from one sport who worked as a TV analyst in a different sport

Traditionally, the role of a sports TV game analyst is a former player or coach from the same sport. Here is a summary of athletes who played professionally (or at the major collegiate level) in one sport and worked as a TV analyst in that sport, but also worked as an analyst on a national TV network in a different sport.

Note: Several ex-athletes have become play-by-play announcers, hosts, or sideline reporters in another sport, but this post focuses on the unusual case of "crossover" game analysts.

Basketball

• CBS used Frank Gifford (football) as an analyst on the college basketball NIT in the 1960s.
• Pat Summerall (football) served as the CBS analyst on some ABA games in the early 1970s as well as on the NIT.
• Sonny Jurgensen (football) was the CBS analyst on some 1976 NBA playoff games.

Football

• Kyle Rote Jr (soccer) worked as a college football analyst for the USA Network in the 1980s.
• Steve Grote (college basketball) analyzed some college football games for CBS in 1983.
• Irv Brown (college basketball player and referee) worked as an analyst on some college football games for ESPN.
• While this is stretching the definition of "athlete", I will note that NBC used professional "wrestlers" Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Jerry "The King" Lawler as XFL analysts in 2001.

Baseball

• NBC added Don Meredith (football) as a guest commentator to the TV booth for one Monday Night Baseball game in 1974.
• Jay Walker (football) worked as an ESPN analyst for some College World Series regionals.

Boxing

• CBS used Tom Brookshier (football) as a boxing analyst on a few bouts in 1976 including a heavyweight title fight with Summerall on play-by-play. 

Olympics

• Both ABC (1976) and NBC (1992) used OJ Simpson (football) as a track and field analyst on sprint events. 
• Phil Simms (football) served as the NBC weightlifting analyst for the 1996 games.  

Soccer

• TNT utilized Mick Luckhurst (football) as an analyst on the 1990 World Cup.

Golf

Golf is a bit trickier as the line between play-by-play and analyst is less clear-cut. But here are some athlete/analysts from other sports who also worked in the golf TV booth:

• Tony Trabert (tennis)
• Don Sutton (baseball)
• Rick Barry (basketball)
• Terry Gannon (college basketball)
• Bob Trumpy (football)
• Pat Haden (football)
• John Brodie (football) 
• the aforementioned Gifford and Summerall

Note: Brodie did compete on the Senior PGA Tour, but since he called golf on TV prior to that stint, I included him on the list.