ABC Earns 3.9 Overnight For Cink's Playoff Win Over Watson

The feel-good story of the year came up just short, quite literally, when Tom Watson failed to win his sixth Claret Jug yesterday, and it appears ABC’s quest for ratings gold will suffer the same fate. The net earns a 3.9 overnight rating for yesterday’s final round of the Open Championship in which the 59-year-old Watson lost to Stewart Cink in a four-hole playoff -- up 11% from last year but still one of the lowest ratings for the event during the Tiger era. Meanwhile, the fourth Open at Turnberry draws a higher-than-expected 123,000 fans during the week, and R&A officials express satisfaction with how several areas of concern were handled.

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