Shot chart from CBS Sunday PGA Championship telecast - 2016

I tracked the strokes televised by CBS during the final round of the PGA Championship. On Sunday, CBS showed 367 strokes from round 4. I included a few shots CBS aired from earlier 4th round coverage, but did not count highlight strokes from the 3rd round. CBS started at 2pm ET and the final putt dropped at 7:23 for an average of 1.14 strokes per minute - a increase over the rate of 1.05 from the 2015 PGA.

CBS showed all 67 strokes by winner Jimmy Walker and bypassed only six from runner-up Jason Day. Henrik Stenson was shown 56 times as CBS devoted over half of its televised strokes to those three. With no re-pairing of the field after the 3rd round, the contenders were spread out. This enabled CBS to bounce around the course as several players were in contention with the leaders on the front 9. CBS showed 25 golfers playing strokes with 10 players getting coverage of at least 12 shots. The highest finisher not shown by CBS was Patrick Reed (T13).

For comparison, here are the shot charts from the other 2016 majors:

• Masters
• US Open
• British Open

Note: The Masters post contains links to the shot charts from the 2014 and 2015 majors.

Here is the complete shot chart:

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Jimmy Walker	67 (of 67)	1	1
Jason Day	61 (of 67)	2	2
Henrik Stenson	56	T7	3
Branden Grace	39	T4	15
Brooks Koepka	30	T4	4
Jordan Spieth	18	T13	7
Hideki Matsuyama	17	T4	5
William McGirt	15	T10	8
Robert Streb	13	T7	1
Daniel Summerhays	12	3	8
Adam Scott	7	T18	10
Emiliano Grillo	5	T13	2
Padraig Harrington	4	T13	33
Martin Kaymer	3	T7	3
Tyrrell Hatton	3	T10	19
Kevin Kisner	3	T18	29
Rich Beem	3	T73	31
Paul Casey	2	T10	16
Russell Henley	2	T22	24
Francesco Molinari	2	T22	31
Webb Simpson	1	T13	12
Russell Knox	1	T22	25
Yuta Ikeda	1	T33	7
Phil Mickelson	1	T33	35
Andrew Johnston	1	T60	17
Patrick Reed	0	T13	4
others	0
total	367

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

Shot chart from NBC Sunday Open Championship telecast - 2016

I tracked the strokes televised by NBC during the Sunday round of the Open Championship. I started tracking at 9am ET to provide a decent comparison to the other majors I have tracked. The final putt was at 1:30pm so the tracking covered 4.5 hours.

NBC aired all but one stroke from winner Henrik Stenson (skipping a tap-in on 12th) and all but two from runner-up Phil Mickelson (bypassing tap-ins on #2 and #5). With those two separating themselves from the field, NBC focused heavily on that pairing. In fact, NBC devoted a whopping 56% of all televised strokes during this period to the Stenson/Mickelson duo (who didn't even tee off until 35 minutes into the tracking).

NBC televised only 224 shots during this period which worked out to 0.83 strokes per minute. This was a sizable decrease from the ESPN shot rate of 1.23 that I measured from the 2015 Open Championship and the lowest rate for any major that I have tracked. The lack of competition from the rest of the field clearly contributed to the low rate. NBC chose to aggressively spotlight the drama and excellence of the lead group (and take numerous commercial breaks) rather than fill time with relatively meaningless golf action from the rest of the pack.

For comparison, refer to the shot tracking data I compiled for CBS from the 2016 Masters and Fox from the 2016 US Open, In that Masters post, you can find links to the shot charts I did for the 2014 and 2015 majors.

NBC showed a total of 24 golfers during the tracking period. The highest finisher not shown during this span was Soren Kjeldsen who tied for 9th.

Here is the complete shot chart:

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Phil Mickelson	63 (of 65)	2	1
Henrik Stenson	62 (of 63)	1	1
Rory McIlroy	14	T5	11
Andrew Johnston	13	8	2
JB Holmes	10	3	3
Bill Haas	8	T9	2
Sergio Garcia	7	T5	5
Dustin Johnson	5	T9	8
Steve Stricker	4	4	3
Tyrrell Hatton	4	T5	7
Jason Day	4	T22	15
Lee Westwood	4	T22	22
Darren Clarke	4	T30	20
Zach Johnson	3	T12	9
Emiliano Grillo	3	T12	11
Haydn Porteous	3	T30	13
Tony Finau	2	T18	4
Kevin Na	2	T22	8
Thomas Pieters	2	T30	14
Jordan Spieth	2	T30	26
Jim Furyk	2	T59	26
Thongchai Jaidee	1	T22	14
Rafa Cabrera Bella	1	T39	16
Rickie Fowler	1	T46	24
Soren Kjeldsen	0	T9	4
others	0
total	224

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