The calendar has flipped to August, and the PGA Tour is right in the middle of one of its best stretches of the season. The WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is about as good a non-major as you can get, save for some experts’ misgivings about the course. And of course next week brings the season’s final major.
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One of the best non-majors on the PGA Tour schedule continues on Friday in Akron, where Tiger Woods will be out in the morning but finish his round during the TV coverage window.
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Friday’s second round from Firestone will tee off just after 9 a.m. ET, and should wrap up right around 6 p.m. The great thing about a WGC event is the field is so small and exclusive that pace of play is usually brisk. Tiger Woods finished up his round in well under four hours on Thursday. It makes for a broadcast that flows more quickly and is much more watchable.
WGC-Bridgestone invitational
WGC-Bridgestone invitational
Golf Channel will once again have the sole coverage on Friday, but they’ll extend their usual three-hour second round window to five hours. The 1:30 p.m. start time means that the end of Tiger’s round should fall well within the coverage window. Woods, who played his full round in front of the cameras on Thursday, will flip to the morning wave on Friday and tee off at 10:30 a.m. ET. He should have about four or five holes left when Golf Channel goes live. There’s also a pregame show that should offer lots of live look-ins and video of Tiger’s round as he progresses through his second nine.
In the afternoon, Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy will be in the same spot as Tiger was for the first round, playing in the final two tee times of the day. McIlroy is in the red at 1-under, and he’ll roll into Valhalla next week as the favorite to win the PGA. Expect to see his every shot on Friday unless he completely implodes early in his round.
If you’re unable to watch on TV and stuck at the office on a Friday afternoon in the summer, well then that is unfortunate. But you can check out of work mentally and stream the golf online. Golf Channel will have their usual simulcast of the TV coverage up and running by 1:30, and PGATour.com will have a featured holes stream running all day. Here are all your media options for Friday at Firestone:
Friday’s second round coverage
Television:
1:30 to 6:30 p.m. - Golf Channel
Online streams:
9 a.m. to 6 p.m. - PGATour.com featured holes stream (par-5 No. 2, with supplemental coverage of Nos. 15, 18)
1:30 to 6:30 p.m. - Golf Channel simulcast stream
Radio:
1 to 7 p.m. - PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208)
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