Golf Channel and CBS step up to provide streaming for adjusted Tiger Woods finish at Memorial

A threatening forecast has made a mess of the Sunday media schedule at Memorial but here are your details on how to watch Tiger contend from the very first tee shot.

Let’s be blunt off the top here: the Sunday schedule at the Memorial tournament, especially as it pertains to TV coverage, is a mess. That can happen when Mother Nature intervenes. The PGA Tour does not play its events in a dome and the annual stop at Muirfield Village, for whatever reason, is notorious for catching horrible, schedule-altering, weather.

So what we have on Sunday is a tee sheet that’s been moved up some five hours to try and dodge an ominous forecast and get an on-time Sunday conclusion. The field will go off split tees and in groups of three, running from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. ET. This is typically what the Tour does when there is threatening weather, condensing the remaining weekend field down into about a two-hour block of tee times.

Tiger Woods, who at one point held the lead on Saturday, will tee off at 9:10 a.m. ET alongside Whee Kim and J.B. Holmes. Woods is five shots back of 54-hole leader Bryson DeChambeau, who is at 14-under. Woods threw away some shots over his final three holes to fall back to 9-under, but he is still within striking distance and has hit the ball well enough to make a major Sunday charge towards that lead. He just needs to the putter to get going and all of a sudden he’ll rocket up the board.

Tee times moved up to this early in the day usually means we get nothing but a tape-delayed finish on CBS. But it would be lunacy to have Tiger in contention and relegate the PGA Tour to nothing but obscurity and tape delay. If he won, it would be one of the best sports stories of all time and there’s no excuse for not showing it live. Of course, there’s been no excuse for tape delayed coverage in the past, too, but that hasn’t stopped CBS, the PGA Tour, and other media partners from screwing it up.

This Sunday, however, the networks stepped up in a way and we’ll have live coverage from 8:30 a.m. ET onward. Golf Channel will start things off with their usual two-plus hour window, going from 8:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. This Golf Channel coverage will be shown live on TV and via their simulcast streaming service. CBS will then take over at 11 a.m. ET, but they will only live stream the broadcast and not put it on TV like Golf Channel is doing for the early-round coverage. So CBS will stream the finish of the final round on their website, their app, and PGA Tour Live, which also has a simulcast stream of their coverage.

Here’s the schedule, barring no weather delays on Sunday:

• Golf Channel will have TV and streaming coverage from 8:30 to 10:45 a.m. ET
• CBS will have just streaming coverage of the finish beginning at 11 a.m. ET
• CBS’ TV coverage will be a tape delay recording beginning at 3 p.m. ET

It’s worth applauding the networks for stepping up here and giving us a way to watch Tiger, who is in contention, from the very first tee. It’s still odd that the coverage won’t make TV for the finish on CBS but that’s a CBS problem and all the paid programming shows take precedent. Here are your adjusted media coverage options for Sunday at the Memorial tournament:

Sunday’s final round coverage

Television:

8:30 to 10:45 a.m. ET — Golf Channel LIVE coverage

3 to 6 p.m. ET — CBS TAPE delayed coverage

Online streams:

8:30 to 10:45 a.m. ET — Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream

11 a.m. to conclusion — PGATourLive.com/CBS simulcast stream on CBS Sports app, CBS Sports.com, and PGA Tour Live.com

7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. — PGA Tour Live coverage

Featured Groups (PGA Tour Live subscription required)

• 7:40 a.m. — Dustin Johnson / Jason Day / Ryan Armour
• 9:10 a.m. — Tiger Woods / J.B. Holmes / Whee Kim

Noon to 3 p.m. — PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage -- Nos. 14 & 16 (No subscription required)