There's no obvious relationship between pace of play and tickets sold, as the averages of the 2000s have shown:

Year Time Att.

2017 3:08 29,868

2016 3:04 30,131

2015 3:00 30,349

2014 3:07 30,345

2013 3:04 30,451

2012 3:00 30,806

2011 2:56 30,228

2010 2:54 30,066

2009 2:55 30,218

2008 2:55 32,382

2007 2:55 32,696

2006 2:51 31,306

2005 2:49 30,816

2004 2:51 30,075

2003 2:49 27,831

2002 2:56 28,006

2001 2:58 29,881

2000 3:01 29,377

Five years earlier ...

1995 2:54 25,021

Five years earlier ...

1990 2:51 26,044