Shot chart from ESPN final round of Open Championship telecast - 2015

I tracked the shots shown by ESPN during the Monday round of the Open Championship. I started tracking at 9am ET and ended when the final putt was holed in regulation play at 1:50. ESPN showed 358 shots during this period which worked out to 1.23 strokes per minute - a sizable increase over the ESPN shot rate of 1.01 from the 2014 Open Championship.

This was also a higher shot rate than I tracked for CBS from the 2015 Masters and Fox from the 2015 US Open, but trailed the rate that NBC showed during the 2015 Players. The Masters post contains links to the shot charts I did for the 2014 majors.

ESPN showed only 16 golfers during the tracking period, focusing primarily on 8 players who were shown for at least 23 shots. With Jordan Spieth in contention for a third consecutive major, ESPN covered all but four strokes from his round. The highest finishers not shown during the tracking period were Justin Rose and Danny Willett who were both part of the tie for 6th place.

Note: ESPN obviously showed all 49 strokes from the playoff, but I didn't count those in the tracking in order to provide a truer comparison to other tournaments.

Here is the complete shot chart:

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Jordan Spieth	65 (of 69)	T4	2
Louis Oosthuizen	51	T2	1
Jason Day	50	T4	2
Marc Leishman	43	T2	3
Zach Johnson	40 (*)	1	7
Adam Scott	26	T10	6
Sergio Garcia	24	T6	4
Paul Dunne	23 (#)	T30	1
Padraig Harrington	15	T20	3
Jordan Niebrugge	8	T6	4
Ashley Chesters	4	T10	14
Luke Donald	3	T12	22
Anthony Wall	2	T12	11
Hideki Matsuyama	2	T18	12
Matt Jones	1	T30	15
Ollie Schniederjans	1	T12	25
others	0
total	358

* includes a shot from hole 2 (before the tracking period) which ESPN showed on a highlight package during the tracking period

# includes two provisional strokes televised by ESPN on hole 2

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