🚨📉📺 #NUMBERS GAME — Rory McIlroy talks about fans losing interest in men’s professional golf and TV ratings tanking: “If you look at the TV ratings of the PGA TOUR this year, they're down 20 percent across the board. That's a fifth, that's big.

I would say the numbers on LIV aren't great either in terms of the people tuning in. I just think with the fighting and everything that's went on over the past couple years, people are just getting really fatigued of it and it's turning people off men's professional golf, and that's not a good thing for anyone.

It's going to be really interesting to see how the four major championships do, or even the three because put Augusta aside, I think that sort of lives in its own world. It will be really interesting to see how the major championship numbers fare compared to the other bigger events because there's an argument to be made if the numbers are better and you've got all the best players in the world playing, then there's an argument to say OK, we need to get this thing back together. But on the flip side, if the numbers aren't as good, it's an argument to still say we need to put everyone back together because people are losing interest in the game even if they don't want to tune in to the four major championships. Like that to me is not -- that's where I said like things need a correction and things are unsustainable because I'm close with NBC and the people that really care about these things and the people that tune in to watch golf. You know, 20 percent's a pretty jarring number this year.” @TrackingRory