Shot chart from CBS Sunday Masters telecast - 2018

I tracked the number of strokes that CBS aired per player during the Sunday round of the Masters. The telecast began at 2pm ET and I counted a total of 387 televised strokes. The final putt dropped at 6:38 which worked out to an average of 1.39 strokes per minute, a slight decrease over the rate from the 2017 Masters, but still the second highest of all major tournaments I have tracked since 2014.

CBS covered all 71 strokes from winner Patrick Reed. Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy were spotlighted for 58 shots each. Runner-up Rickie Fowler and third place finisher Jordan Spieth also received significant coverage. Overall those five players accounted for over 74% of the televised shots. Early in the telecast, CBS went overboard on the well out-of-contention Tiger Woods who was shown for 18 strokes (two of which were taped highlights from prior to airtime) which wound up being the sixth most of any player. CBS also included a 3-stroke highlight package of Phil Mickelson who had already completed his round.

The highest finisher not shown by CBS was Marc Leishman who wound up 9th (after being featured prominently on Saturday). CBS televised strokes from just 22 players during the Sunday round.

I also tracked the number of televised strokes by hole. The 18th was featured the most (36 strokes). I was a bit surprised at a few other results from this tracking. Hole #1 was seen second most often (29 strokes). And the iconic par-3 12th received the fewest televised stokes as CBS only showed 10 shots from that hole.

This is the fifth 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 finisher not shown on the telecast) followed by the hole-by-hole breakdown:

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Patrick Reed	71 (of 71)	1	1
Jon Rahm	58	4	2
Rory McIlroy	58	T5	1
Rickie Fowler	54	2	2
Jordan Spieth	48	3	5
Tiger Woods	18	T32	20
Henrik Stenson	17	T5	3
Paul Casey	17	T15	15
Justin Thomas	11	T17	5
Bubba Watson	8	T5	4
Webb Simpson	5	T20	18
Cameron Smith	4	T5	6
Dustin Johnson	4	T10	6
Tony Finau	3	T10	10
Phil Mickelson	3	T36	25
Fred Couples	2	T38	19
Justin Rose	1	T12	7
Charley Hoffman	1	T12	10
Jimmy Walker	1	T20	9
Jason Day	1	T20	8
Branden Grace	1	T24	21
Doug Ghim	1	T50	24
Marc Leishman	0	9	4
others	0
total	387

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

Hole number	Televised shots
1	29
2	28
3	16
4	15
5	19
6	15
7	17
8	23
9	22
10	20
11	20
12	10
13	26
14	15
15	28
16	21
17	27
18	36