CBS boasts most-watched golf season in 7 years as 2025 Wyndham Championship ratings soar
Amid all the discussions about changes to improve golf, the state of the sport and what the future might hold, the latest television ratings for the PGA Tour suggest that there’s no need to worry about the game’s popularity.
CBS Sports on Tuesday reported that 2025 was its most-watched golf season in seven years, averaging 2.969 million viewers for golf broadcasts, which is up 17 percent from 2024. It’s the highest mark since 2018.
The network’s streaming app, Paramount+, also saw its most-streamed golf season since the platform launched in 2021.
The Tour’s regular-season finale, which was also the last event on CBS for the season, certainly helped contribute to that number, as an average of 1.95 million golf fans tuned in to watch Cameron Young cruise to his first PGA Tour victory at the 2025 Wyndham Championship on Sunday — a 36-percent increase in viewership from last year’s Wyndham.
During that broadcast, CBS bid farewell to a staple of its golf commentary crew, Ian Baker-Finch, who retired after 30 years on the air. The 1991 British Open Champion got emotional several times on the air throughout the weekend as the heartfelt tributes poured in.
A celebration of an outstanding career.
It was an absolute pleasure, Ian 🙌 pic.twitter.com/RKEImvXIuD
— Golf on CBS ⛳ (@GolfonCBS) August 3, 2025
So as the 2025 golf season comes to a close for CBS, NBC and its affiliates will take the reins for the FedEx Cup Playoffs — the PGA Tour’s three-week series of elimination events culminating with the Tour Championship at East Lake.
The first of those events, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, begins Thursday.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: CBS says 2025 was most-watched golf season in years, Wyndham ratings soar
