Sports TV Ratings: 2020 WGC FedEX St Jude Won Last Weekend

CBS Sports’ Final-Round Coverage of @WGCFedEx is Most-Watched Sports Broadcast of Weekend pic.twitter.com/ulxT9SkR2T

— CBS Sports PR (@CBSSportsGang) August 4, 2020

The Clippers/Lakers NBA return on Thursday won the week (barely), but CBS’s coverage of the WGC FedEx St Jude was the highest rated weekend sports broadcast, according to ShowBuzzDaily. The telecast featured a wild final round eventually won by Justin Thomas.

More impressively, it was played against increased sports competition returning from the COVID-19 breaks and summertime weather that often puts a huge damper in ratings (see the 2019 comparable weekend below).

The numbers marked an upgrade over last year’s dreadfully rated FedEx St Jude and the Wyndham Championship, played on a comparable weekend in 2019.

The 2019 numbers: