Shot chart from NBC Sunday Open Championship telecast - 2018

I monitored the strokes televised by NBC during the final round of the Open Championship. I started tracking at 9am ET to provide a comparable time period to the other majors I have tracked. NBC televised 383 strokes during the tracking period. This total includes 30 shots that NBC aired as part of its Playing Through feature during 10 of the commercial breaks. With the final putt dropping at 1:57pm, the rate worked out to 1.29 strokes per minute.

NBC showed strokes from 21 different players during the tracking period with seven golfers being covered for at least 22 strokes. Those seven accounted for 84% of the televised shots. NBC televised 45 strokes from winner Francesco Molinari which was only the fourth highest total. NBC devoted air time to 65 strokes from Tiger Woods and spotlighted the final pairing of Jordan Spieth and Xander Schauffele for 58 and 55 shots respectively. The highest finishers not shown during this period were three of the players who were part of a tie for 12th.

I also recorded the number of televised strokes by hole during the tracking period. The 18th was featured most frequently (39 strokes) followed by hole #1 (35 shots). On the other extreme, the 9th hole received only nine televised shots.

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 such shot charts since 2014.

Here is the complete shot chart (including the highest finishers not shown during the tracking period) followed by the hole-by-hole breakdown:

Player	Shots shown	Finish	Pairing
Tiger Woods	65 (of 71)	T6	3
Jordan Spieth	58	T9	1
Xander Schauffele	55	T2	1
Francesco Molinari	45	1	3
Kevin Kisner	40	T2	2
Rory McIlroy	35	T2	5
Kevin Chappell	22	T6	2
Tommy Fleetwood	10	T12	6
Justin Rose	9	T2	7
Matt Kuchar	7	T9	5
Phil Mickelson	7	T24	19
Eddie Pepperell	5	T6	19
Tony Finau	4	T9	9
Webb Simpson	4	T12	4
Alex Noren	4	T17	4
Zach Johnson	4	T17	6
Erik Van Rooyen	4	T17	10
Jason Day	2	T17	27
Bernhard Langer	1	T24	18
Julian Suri	1	T28	23
Sean Crocker	1	T47	15
Cantlay/Moore/Olesen	0	T12
others	0
total	383

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	35
2	20
3	20
4	18
5	23
6	24
7	19
8	12
9	9
10	16
11	19
12	19
13	21
14	26
15	19
16	19
17	25
18	39