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005 - LIV golf rubbed off some more people 082025

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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LIV golf rubbed off some more people

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0:00.0

Welcome back to The Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com in about eight minutes or so. We're going to talk to Bryce Maritch and follow up yesterday's recruiting groundup with another great recruiting roundup. Savian Heiter commits to Michigan, the five-star running back. So we'll get the reaction to that announcement and what is next for Michigan. And what some recruits and other commits think about that, that coming up with brice in about eight minutes from now but miss i got thinking about something yesterday

0:26.5

because i actually kind of forgotten it's how it's not on my radar but there's actually quote unquote i'm going to use air quotes around professional

0:35.2

but there's professional golf in town this week and you know me i'm a huge a huge golf guy. Oh, yeah. But if you listen to the show,

0:40.4

you know, I'm not a big live golf guy, but you know who else is in the live golf person? Pretty

0:44.7

much everybody else. Yeah. So this weekend you had the, the PGA has their tour championship down

0:50.7

in East Lake in Atlanta. Okay. And you have the Live Golf Team Championship

0:56.2

here at the Cardinal in Plymouth in Michigan.

0:59.8

And I could ask the general question

1:03.1

of which one is more interesting to anybody,

1:05.3

but it's not even a question.

1:07.1

So last week's BMW championship

1:10.0

that was won by Scotty Sheffler, he's unbelievable.

1:13.3

And he's turning into much more so turning into a must-see TV for golf fans.

1:17.8

Oh, absolutely.

1:18.5

3.5 million people watched last year on NBC or last week on NBC to watch the BMW championship.

1:23.2

That was a 43% increase from last year when 2.5 million watched Keegan Bradley win the BMW.

1:29.8

So let's just compare that because simultaneously, excuse me, on Fox over the year TV,

1:36.6

Liv Golf was in Indianapolis.

1:38.9

And again, I said that there were 3.5 million people watching on NBC for the PGA Tour's

1:43.9

playoff event.

1:45.2

There were 426,000 viewers for Fox.

1:49.7

There were three point and changed million fewer viewers for Fox than there were for the

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