ESPN’s stay telecast of the primary spherical of the Masters Match on Thursday averaged 3.2 million viewers, the very best for the primary spherical since 2015. It represented a leap of 28% in viewership over final 12 months’s first spherical.
The telecast aired from 3-8:06 p.m. ET and the viewers peaked at 3.8 million within the 6:15 p.m. quarter hour.
Final 12 months’s first spherical of the Masters Match averaged 2.5 million viewers on ESPN.
The Welcome to the Masters lead-in program averaged 594,000 viewers from 1-3 p.m. on ESPN.
For the 2 weekend days of the Masters, stay streaming protection of Featured Teams and Featured Holes (Holes 4, 5 and 6, Amen Nook, and Holes 15 and 16) continues on ESPN+ all day, every day of the Match.