Tight final round of Players Championship third-most watched

Rickie Fowler’s remarkable rally and playoff victory gave The Players Championship its third-highest Sunday preliminary television rating in the last decade. According to The Nielsen Company, the overnight rating was 3.9, up 60 percent from a year ago. The rating peaked at 6.0 from 7:30 to 8 p.m., when Fowler outlasted Sergio Garcia and Kevin Kisner in a three-hole playoff, followed by one hole of sudden death. The only other two final rounds at The Players that had a higher rating in the last decade were Tiger Woods winning in 2013 and Henrik Stenson winning in 2009.

Associated Press