CBS boasts most-watched golf season in 7 years as 2025 Wyndham Championship ratings soar
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 company also reported that 2025 was the most-streamed golf season ever on Paramount+, which 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 19 years in the booth alongside the likes of Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo. The 1991 British Open Champion got emotional on air several times throughout the weekend as the heartfelt tributes poured in.
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.
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