Tampabay.com
MARCH 31, 2009

Welcome back, Mr. Woods

Tiger You can just picture golf and TV execs drinking champagne, dancing and singing, Happy Days are Here Again, can't you? Tiger Woods is back.

Tiger's dramatic come-from-behind victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday earned NBC its highest TV ratings since last year's U.S. Open, which also was won by Woods. NBC earned a 4.9/10 Nielsen rating for Sunday's final round -- a 22.5 percent jump from last year's final round. The rating peaked at a 7.8/13 from 7:30-8:00 p.m., the final half-hour of the tournament which featured Woods draining a putt on the 18th hole for the victory.

The Tampa-St. Petersburg market finished fourth nationally in the TV ratings:
1. Fort Myers, 11.6/20
2. Orlando, 10.6/20
3. West Palm Beach, 8.8/15
4. Tampa, 7.6/15
5. Providence, 7.4/12
6. Buffalo, 7.1/13
7 Milwaukee, 6.9/13
T8. Minneapolis, 6.4/14
T8. Baltimore, 6.4/11
10. Cleveland, 6.1/11

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