Tiger Woods live stream 2018: How to watch him play at the Farmers Insurance Open Round 3

Tiger is back playing the weekend on the PGA Tour for the first time in 900 days. Cancel your plans and watch this rare cat play the third round at Torrey Pines.

Our benevolent golf sugar daddy, the greatest draw in the history of the game, and the one who took it to inconceivable heights, is back. Tiger Woods will tee it up on Saturday at the Farmers Insurance Open and it will be the first time in almost 900 days that he plays a weekend round at an official PGA Tour event. The last time Tiger made a PGA Tour cut was the August of 2015 Wyndham Championship.

This was a long time coming and Tiger made sure the drama ran up until the very final green. He needed a 36th hole in order to play his way back onto the right side of the cut line. The entire final five holes of his second round were a table tennis match back-and-forth over the cut line. A sloppy bogey at his 17th hole on Friday made a birdie at his 18th hole a necessity. Tiger hit a wild drive in the rough, but rebounded with a powerful hack to cover a bunker and get on the green in two. A perfect lag putt left him just a nice tap-in birdie to clean up and, voila, Tiger was back playing the weekend on the PGA Tour.

It’s a obviously a moment of relief for the Big Cat, and a huge windfall for everyone else. Golf Channel and CBS now get two more days with a driving and obvious purpose for their coverage. The PGA Tour gets a massive boost in interest in one of its early season marquee events on a weekend that’s relatively dead in the sports world as the NFL takes its pre Super Bowl break. And the fans have something to really dive into, even if Tiger is not in contention — he’s still playing in a real, live PGA Tour event and was good enough to be in the top half of the field. All of this is good, for everyone.

With the cut now made, the Tour is opting to still keep the remaining field in groups of three and going off split tees Saturday. The tournament now shifts exclusively to Torrey’s South Course. The split-tee arrangement means the entire field will be out there in a two-hour window. Tiger goes at 1:10 p.m. ET, a good 50 minutes before Golf Channel’s coverage is supposed to go live. Golf Channel will, however, have a pregame show running from 1 to 2 p.m. ET and they’re usually pretty good in those shows of going to live look-ins of Tiger’s every shot. We should, in one form or fashion, get to watch his every play from the very first tee ball.

CBS will then have the second half of Tiger’s round, with Jim Nantz getting to bask in the glow of calling a Tiger round for the first time in 2.5 years. Nantz will probably be fully worked up by Saturday afternoon when they go live with Tiger. It’s been so long and this begins a fairly important stretch of the schedule that CBS covers. They’ve committed to using ProTracer on every tee at every event, a game-changer and a commendable and dramatic raising of their game. Now we need to see them use it and show more golf shots.

If you’re unable to get to a TV, or just living a normal life doing things out-and-about with your Saturday, you can stream the coverage to whatever device you prefer. There will be simulcast streams of both Golf Channel and CBS’ broadcasts. PGA Tour Live will also have a featured holes stream but Tiger won’t be on there but for a few moments.

Here are your streaming and coverage options for the third round at the Farmers Insurance Open (all times ET):

Saturday’s third round coverage

Television:

2 to 3:30 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

4 to 7 p.m. ET — CBS

Online streams:

11:30 to 7 p.m. ET -- PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage (No subscription required)

1 to 3:30 p.m. ET — Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream

4 to 7 p.m. ET — PGATour.com/CBS simulcast stream

Radio:

2 to 7 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)