The PGA Tour’s eight signature events this season averaged 3.44 million viewers for their final round broadcasts.
While comparing that to 2025 is tricky for a number of reasons, signature events this year did draw more viewers.
More importantly, those figures are key as the PGA Tour moves toward a new two-track model in 2028 with a top-flight Championship Series playing at many of the same venues as signature events and expanding on their overall structure.
Conceived in 2022 after the debut of LIV Golf and launched in 2023 (first as designated events), the PGA Tour’s signature events have featured reduced fields of 80 or fewer players, no 36-hole cut, and $20 million purses.
In 2028, the new PGA Tour Championship Series will also offer purses of at least $20 million, but will have expanded fields of 120 players on average with a traditional 36-hole cut. The PGA Tour plans to play 15 Championship Series events, in addition to the four majors, the Players Championship, and a revamped postseason.
