Tiger tees off on Saturday at 1:10 p.m. ET so Golf Channel's pregame show from 1 to 2 p.m. should feature live look - ins of most, if not all, of his shots before they take over with
early round coverage.
The early round coverage will start Noon on Golf Channel, with NBC taking over at 2:30 to bring it home.
Golf Channel will have
the early round coverage, per usual, coming on the air at 1 p.m. ET.
Not exact matches
GC goes live at 1 p.m. ET for a 105 - minute
coverage window
early in the
round.
Golf Channel will have the
early -
round coverage and the beginning of Mickelson's
round, which starts at 12:50 p.m. ET.
The Tennis Channel will air a majority of the
early round matches, while ESPN3.com will be live streaming with eight live feeds and more than 600 hours of
coverage.
So on Saturday when Golf Channel went off the air with their
early -
round coverage at 3:45 p.m. ET, you'd think we would only miss a hole or two during the 15 - minute break.
This is the usual split, with GC taking the first two
rounds and then
early coverage of the last two
rounds.
The
coverage for the final
round is a standard five - hour block, with GC taking the
early portion before handing it off to their Comcast sister NBC for the conclusion.
Watson defended himself in a long statement submitted as a comment on an
earlier post
rounding up
coverage of accusations made by Pete Bethune, the skipper of the wrecked vessel:
The problem I have with this recent
coverage is the complete omission of this story, which made the
rounds in
early June, 2016 --
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