Sunday, June 18, 2017

Shot chart from Fox Sunday US Open telecast - 2017

I tracked the shots televised by Fox during the final round of the US Open. With the leaders teeing off around 4pm ET, I started the tracking at 3:30 to provide a similar timeframe to the other majors I have monitored.

Fox showed 366 strokes during the tracking period. The final putt dropped at 8:12 which resulted in a rate of 1.30 strokes per minute. This marked a significant increase over the 1.12 and 1.18 shown by Fox during its last two US Open telecasts, but trailed the 1.41 rate from the 2017 Masters on CBS.

Fox showed all but four shots from both winner Brooks Koepka and Brian Harman who tied for second. Rickie Fowler had 58 strokes televised and Tommy Fleetwood received coverage for 56. During the tracking period, Fox devoted 67% of its televised strokes to those four players. Fox showed 23 golfers playing strokes with eight players getting coverage for at least 12 shots. The highest finishers not shown during the period were three in the group who tied for 16th.

Also notable: Fox went commercial-free for the last 46 minutes of play.

This is the fourth year that I have compiled these televised shot charts. For comparison to prior majors, see this summary table which contains links to all shot charts since 2014.

Here is the complete shot chart (including the highest finishers not shown during the tracking period):

PlayerShots shownFinishPairing
Brian Harman68 (of 72)T21
Brooks Koepka63 (of 67)12
Rickie Fowler58T53
Tommy Fleetwood5642
Justin Thomas30T91
Hideki Matsuyama21T28
Si Woo Kim14T133
Charley Hoffman1285
Xander Schauffele6T57
Brandt Snedeker6T96
Patrick Reed5T134
Russell Henley5T274
Cameron Champ5T3212
Steve Stricker4T1615
Bill Haas2T55
JB Holmes2128
Matt Kuchar2T1618
Sergio Garcia2T2110
Trey Mullinax1T99
Brendan Steele1T136
David Lingmerth1T2115
Jim Furyk1T2314
Scottie Scheffler1T2717
Bernd Wiesberger0T167
Eddie Pepperell0T1610
Chez Reavie0T1611
others0
total366

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