How to watch 2014 Deutsche Bank Championship online, TV schedule and more

A Saturday on the PGA Tour is usually moving day, where players down the leaderboard try to make a charge and get a realistic chance to win over Sunday’s final 18. But this week at the Deutsche Bank Championship, Saturday will be highlighted by those players near the bottom of the leaderboard grinding to make the cut and stay alive in the FedEx Cup

The DBC is the one tournament all season that has a pre-planned Monday finish, so everything is pushed back a day. “Making the cut” and “making the weekend” aren’t interchangeable, as they are almost every other week. Saturday’s third round will feature the full 100-man field that started the second leg of the Tour’s postseason, but the normal cut down to the top 70 will still take place after 36 holes. The top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings are also the only ones to move on to Denver and the BMW Championship. There will be a lot of overlap between those missing the cut at TPC Boston and those getting knocked out of the postseason, so it’s going to be a scramble to get back in position for the group starting the day on the bottom half of the leaderboard.

With it still being the second round, the coverage will actually be limited compared to a normal Saturday on the PGA Tour. It’s actually the shortest coverage window of the week, with Golf Channel going it alone before splitting duties with their Comcast sister NBC for the final two rounds. Golf Channel is set to come on the air at 3 p.m. and carry coverage until 6 p.m. That’s the typical three-hour broadcast for the second round of a normal tournament, but that had been expanded for the playoffs. The final two rounds will feature some of the more comprehensive coverage of the season, with longer broadcasts and Golf Channel’s “spotlight coverage” also put in play to run concurrent to the normal NBC broadcast. But Saturday is pretty slim.

Phil Mickelson will be the big name out in the morning, and he’ll need to go low just to make the cut and make the third leg of the playoffs. He starts the day tied for 77th place and projected to drop from 57th in the standings to 74th and out of the BMW Championship. He’s also not expected to be on the PGATour.com’s featured groups stream that comes on well before the TV coverage in the afternoon. That stream should have the 9:10 a.m. group of Bubba Watson, Matt Kuchar, and Jim Furyk while Phil plays it out in obscurity a few groups ahead. The afternoon TV coverage should focus largely on the group with the top three in the standings: Rory McIlroy, Hunter Mahan, and Jimmy Walker. They tee off at 1:40 p.m. ET. Here’s your media schedule for Saturday’s third round:

3 to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel

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

3 to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel simulcast stream

1 to 7 p.m. -- PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208)