Golf category has seen an increase of 46% from week ending June 28 to week ending July 5 with 2 tournaments on the weekend - The Western Open, won by Tiger Woods, and the U.S. Women's Open won by Hilary Lunke.
Traffic to the 2003 U.S. Women's Open website witnessed a huge increase in U.S. visits of 4400% for the week ending July 5th.
Traffic to the Western Open website witnessed an increase in U.S. visits of 114%, as Tiger Woods secured the Championship.
Other Golf sites to witness an increase in U.S. visits were www.lpga.com (+75%); www.freegolfinfo.com (+55%); golf.fantasy.pgatour.com (+53%) and www.golf.com (+25%).
For the week ending July 5, more than 67% of traffic to www.uswomensopen.com came from Ladies Professional Golf Association - www.lpga.com, 12.6% from ESPN.com and 3.5% from the US Golf Association www.usga.com.
For the week ending July 5, 14.8% of traffic to www.pgatour.com came from Search Engines & Directories, 7.4% from other Golf sites - golf.fantasysports.yahoo.com, sports.yahoo.golfserve.com, www.uswomensopen.com and 6.5% from Television websites - www.espn.com, www.weather.com and www.cnn.com.
After visiting www.uswomensopen.com, 15% of traffic went to other Golf websites, and 15% to Entertainment - Television websites (www.espn.com, www.weather.com, www.thegolfchannel.com and www.cnn.com).