Monday, June 22, 2015

Shot chart from Fox Sunday US Open telecast - 2015

I tracked the shots televised by Fox during the final round of the US Open. With the leaders teeing off at 6pm ET, I chose to start the tracking at 5:30 to provide a similar timeframe to the other events I have monitored.

Fox showed 341 strokes during the tracking period. The final putt dropped at 10:18 so this worked out to 1.18 strokes per minute which was an increase over the 1.12 shown by NBC during the 2014 US Open. The shot rate matched that of the 2015 Masters on CBS, but trailed the 1.33 by NBC for the 2015 Players. (Note: The Masters post contains links to the shot charts from the 2014 majors).

Fox showed all but one shot from Dustin Johnson, skipping only a layup shot on the 8th hole. Fox focused extensively on the final two pairings, devoting 69% of its televised strokes to those four players. Fox showed just 19 golfers playing strokes and only seven players got coverage for at least 10 shots. The highest finisher not shown during the period was Kevin Kisner (T12).

Also notable: Fox went commercial-free for 68 minutes starting at 9:14.

Here is the complete shot chart:

PlayerShots shownFinishPairing
Dustin Johnson69 (of 70)T21
Jason Day59T91
Jordan Spieth5612
Branden Grace52T42
Rory McIlroy27T915
Brandt Snedeker2085
Louis Oosthuizen16T23
Adam Scott9T411
Cameron Smith8T43
JB Holmes5T274
Shane Lowry4T94
Sergio Garcia3T1818
Henrik Stenson3T276
Charl Schwartzel278
Matt Kuchar2T128
John Senden2T1415
Brooks Koepka2T1813
Patrick Reed1T147
Colin Montgomerie1T6423
Kevin Kisner0T129
others0
total341

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

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