Sunday, April 10, 2016

Shot chart from CBS Sunday Masters telecast - 2016

I tracked the number of strokes CBS showed for each player during the Sunday round of the Masters. I counted a total of 411 strokes televised by CBS. The telecast began at 2pm ET with the final putt at 7:10 which worked out to an average of 1.33 strokes per minute - a sizable increase from both the 2015 Masters and 2014 Masters.

CBS covered 41 strokes from winner Danny Willett. CBS first showed Willett on hole 4 and started airing all of his strokes partway through hole 13. CBS televised every stroke from third round leader Jordan Spieth. Dustin Johnson was featured second most often for a total of 55 shots. Nine players got coverage of at least 24 strokes.

The highest finisher not shown by CBS was Daniel Berger who tied for 10th. CBS televised strokes from 28 different players.

This is the third year that I have compiled these televised shot charts. For comparison, the chart from the 2015 PGA Championship contains links to all the charts from the other 2014 and 2015 majors.

Here is the complete shot chart (including the highest finisher not shown on the telecast):


PlayerShots shownFinishPairing
Jordan Spieth71 (of 71*)T21
Dustin Johnson55T43
Danny Willett4114
Jason Day37T103
Smylie Kaufman37T291
Soren Kjeldson32T75
Lee Westwood26T24
Hideki Matsuyama25T72
Rory McIlroy24 (#)T106
Paul Casey11T410
Bernhard Langer11T242
Matthew Fitzpatrick6T713
Brandt Snedeker5T105
Davis Love III5T4217
Bryson DeChambeau4T2114
Henrik Stenson3T2423
Adam Scott3T4218
JB Holmes2T48
Louis Oosthuizen2T158
Bubba Watson2T3724
Romain Langasque2T3728
Justin Rose1T107
Kiradech Aphibarnrat1T1515
Billy Horschel1T179
Emiliano Grillo1T1710
Matt Kuchar1T249
Shane Lowry1T3919
Larry Mize1T5226
Daniel Berger0T106
others0
total411

* Spieth took 71 "shots" plus two penalty strokes for a score of 73
# includes a provisional stroke televised by CBS on hole 4

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