Fox showed 345 shots during the tracking period. Play concluded at 6:39 which worked out to a rate of 1.24 strokes per minute. This was down from the 1.30 shown by Fox during the 2017 US Open.
Fox showed 65 strokes from Dustin Johnson and 64 by winner Brooks Koepka. Patrick Reed was featured for 58 strokes. The final pairing of Tony Finau and Daniel Berger checked in at 44 and 29 respectively. Runner-up Tommy Fleetwood (who was already on the 10th hole when the tracking period started) was covered for 25. Fox showed only 18 golfers playing strokes during this period with eight players getting coverage for at least 12 shots. The highest finisher not shown during the period was Zach Johnson who tied for 12th.
A few notes on the TV coverage:
- Fox went commercial-free for the final 52 minutes of play.
- I noticed two different occasions when the Fox on-screen scoreboard gave away a result of a shot that Fox was about to show. With D Johnson facing a rather short par putt on 7, Fox cut to show Fleetwood at 18. While there, the on-screen leaderboard updated to show Johnson dropping a shot on 7 and sliding down the board. Then Fox cut back to 7 and aired Johnson missing the putt. Similarly, Fox showed Fitzpatrick's approach to 18, but before it went back there to televise his birdie putt, the on-screen scroll showed Fitzpatrick's final score, again giving away the result.
- When D Johnson was hitting a layup shot on 16, Fox was showing Koepka standing in the fairway. You could hear the club strike the ball and then a camera picked up the ball and showed it land. I chose to count this as a televised stroke.
I also tracked the number of televised strokes by hole during the tracking period. The 18th was featured the most (39 strokes) by a wide margin. Hole 7 received the fewest televised shots (12).
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 during the tracking period) followed by the hole-by-hole breakdown:
| Player | Shots shown | Finish | Pairing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin Johnson | 65 (of 70) | 3 | 2 |
| Brooks Koepka | 64 (of 68) | 1 | 2 |
| Patrick Reed | 58 | 4 | 4 |
| Tony Finau | 44 | 5 | 1 |
| Daniel Berger | 29 | T6 | 1 |
| Tommy Fleetwood | 25 | 2 | 14 |
| Justin Rose | 20 | T10 | 3 |
| Henrik Stenson | 12 | T6 | 3 |
| Matthew Fitzpatrick | 9 | T12 | 11 |
| Webb Simpson | 6 | T10 | 9 |
| Kiradech Aphinbarnrat | 3 | 15 | 4 |
| Xander Schauffele | 3 | T6 | 10 |
| Matt Parziale | 2 | T48 | 18 |
| Tyrell Hatton | 1 | T6 | 6 |
| Russell Knox | 1 | T12 | 13 |
| Brian Gay | 1 | T20 | 5 |
| Ian Poulter | 1 | T25 | 7 |
| Luis Gagne | 1 | T48 | 23 |
| Zach Johnson | 0 | T12 | 9 |
| others | 0 | ||
| total | 345 |
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 | 21 |
| 2 | 17 |
| 3 | 18 |
| 4 | 15 |
| 5 | 19 |
| 6 | 13 |
| 7 | 12 |
| 8 | 13 |
| 9 | 13 |
| 10 | 20 |
| 11 | 24 |
| 12 | 25 |
| 13 | 21 |
| 14 | 17 |
| 15 | 17 |
| 16 | 23 |
| 17 | 18 |
| 18 | 39 |
