Ratings: 2022 Arnold Palmer Down, Honda And Genesis Hit 25-Year Lows

Showbuzzdaily.com has all the numbers which are not very encouraging.

The 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational featuring Scottie Scheffler’s second tour win scored a Nielsen 1.70 rating with 2.825 million viewers, down a million average viewers from 2021’s 2.36/3.862 million.

Saturday’s third round went from a 1.55/2.5 million viewers last year to a 1.21/1.95 million in 2022.

The 2021 numbers:

Last week’s Honda and the previous Genesis saw a historic lows, as noted by Paulsen at SportsMediaWatch.com:

Final round coverage of the PGA Tour Honda Classic averaged a 1.5 rating and 2.57 million viewers on NBC, tying the second-lowest final round rating for the event in at least 25 years. Third round coverage the previous day had a 1.0 and 1.62 million. The previous week’s Los Angeles Open on CBS turned in a 1.3 and 2.13 million on February 19 and a 1.6 and 2.62 million on February 20, the latter tying as the lowest rated final round of the event in at least 25 years.