2014 Barclays streaming: How to watch online, TV coverage and more for Saturday

The top 100 field for the second leg of the postseason is starting to take shape after the cut was made Friday night at The Barclays. There are 79 players left at Ridgewood Country Club, and 100 of the 125 who made the postseason get invites to the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston. There were nine guys already outside the top 100 who missed the cut and are officially done, their playoffs lasting only two rounds. And there are currently five players previously inside the top 100 but who are likely done after missing the cut. The current projections have six playing their way inside the top 100 and on to Boston.

The postseason points jostling is always the concurrent drama alongside the instant tournament, which has set up a pretty nice leaderboard at the 36-hole mark. The defending champion, Adam Scott, has a co-lead with Cameron Tringale, while a set of world class chasers are on or near the first page of the leaderboard. Scott shot to the top with a second round 6-under 65, matching Tringale’s AM push to grab a share of the lead at 8-under. He’s had a relatively quiet summer, playing in just four events since mid-June’s U.S. Open and ceding his No. 1 world ranking to Rory McIlroy this month. Scott already has a win this year, the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, so it’s not been a wasted season and he continues to play world class golf for a series of top 10 finishes. But after Rory has stolen the show, a postseason win and FedEx Cup run would be a nice rejoinder.

McIlroy jumped back into the mix and rocketed past the cut line with his own round of 65 on Saturday. It was a safe assumption that Rory would return to the form we’ve seen over the past two months following that disappointing but “inevitable” first round. A little more practice after spending a week away from golf and McIlroy was back bombing drives down the middle of the fairway, leading the field again this week in distance off the tee.

Because of that early hole, Rory will still tee off well before the leaders at 11:05 a.m. ET. Even though he’s out relatively early, most of his back nine should still fall in the TV coverage window. Golf Channel and CBS will split the duties on the weekend, with the usual 3 p.m. hand-off on Saturday that they’ve done all year. There’s that annoying half-hour blackout period right as the leaders get on the course and the networks have to switch in crews and graphics. This will be the last time that happens this year with NBC, the Comcast sister of Golf Channel, taking over the coverage for the final three legs of the postseason. It’s also the final weekend for CBS golf this year, as their NFL coverage takes over and Jim Nantz trades in Nick Faldo for Phil Simms.

Here’s the media schedule for Saturday’s third round:

1 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. -- CBS

8 a.m. to 6 p.m. -- PGATour.com featured groups stream

1 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel simulcast stream

Noon to 6 p.m. -- PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208)