Shot chart from NBC Sunday Players Championship telecast - 2015

I tracked the televised strokes by player during the NBC airing of the final round of the Players Championship. NBC showed 382 regulation strokes from the Sunday round. The telecast began at 2pm ET and regulation play ended at 6:48, so this worked out to 1.33 strokes per minute - the highest average of the six events I have tracked.

Note: NBC obviously televised all 39 shots from the playoff, but I did not count these in the table so as to provide a truer comparison to the tracking for other tournaments.

With a crowded leaderboard, NBC spread the wealth as eight golfers received coverage of at least 20 shots (and 10 players were shown for at least 10 strokes). Sergio Garcia who led the event for much of the afternoon was on the air for 54 strokes. NBC devoted 62% of the televised shots to the final three pairings. However, eventual winner Rickie Fowler, who started in the 8th pairing and was well back in the pack until late in his round, was only shown for 12 strokes prior to the playoff. Nine players in the field were featured more frequently.

NBC showed a total of 34 golfers (including a five-stroke taped package of Tiger Woods who had finished before the network took the air). Everyone who finished higher than T17 was shown for at least one shot.

For comparison, see the Sunday shot chart I compiled from the 2015 Masters (note: that post contains links to the charts from the 2014 majors).

Here is the complete shot chart (from regulation play):

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Sergio Garcia	54	T2	3
Kevin Kisner	49	T2	1
Bill Haas	38	T4	2
Ben Martin	34	T4	2
Justin Thomas	34	T24	3
Chris Kirk	28	T13	1
Rory McIlroy	22	T8	12
Kevin Na	21	T6	5
Brian Harmon	15	T8	12
Rickie Fowler	12	1	8
Bubba Watson	9	T42	10
Rory Sabbatini	7	T6	11
Billy Horschel	7	T13	7
John Senden	5	T8	9
David Toms	5	T13	16
Tiger Woods	5	T69	35
Jamie Donaldson	4	T8	21
Adam Scott	4	T38	10
Zach Johnson	3	T13	13
Derek Fathauer	3	T17	8
Ian Poulter	3	T30	11
Martin Kaymer	3	T51	18
Pat Perez	2	T17	6
Chesson Hadley	2	T24	6
Charley Hoffman	2	T30	19
Sangmoon Bae	2	T30	23
Charles Howell III	2	T56	15
Ryo Ishikawa	1	T8	7
Jerry Kelly	1	T17	5
Scott Brown	1	T30	4
Steve Stricker	1	T38	20
Fredrik Jacobson	1	T42	23
Matt Every	1	T42	24
Luke Guthrie	1	T51	16
others	0
total	382

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