Hitwise this week reports that the U.S. Women's Open website experienced a far greater surge in U.S. visits over the weekend than the official Western Open website, hosted by PGA Tours. As Hilary
Lunke rolled in a 15-footer for birdie on the 18th hole to win the 58th U.S. Women's Open, traffic to Women's Golf related websites soared far greater than the increase in visits to the 100th Western
Open website, won by Tiger Woods.
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).