PGA Championship streaming 2014: How to watch Saturday’s round live online

The PGA Championship lost Tiger Woods on Friday evening, but it has about as good a leaderboard as we could have wanted at the midpoint. Woods is the top draw, and will remain so as long as he’s in the game, but Rory McIlroy is unquestionably the best player. And he’s on a Tiger-like run through the second-half of the summer right now.

McIlroy sits on on the 36-hole lead just three weeks removed from rolling to his first ever Open Championship. In the intervening time, he picked up his first ever WGC title, and now he’s dialed in at the season’s final major and going for a third straight. After the Open win, I wrote that McIlroy’s best is better than everyone else’s, and that loaded field around him just has to hope he hits a couple loose shots or somehow veers off the form that he’s held constant over the past couple months. That doesn’t appear likely, and honestly, the field is lucky he hasn’t run away with it already. McIlroy has burned so many edges on the greens that his back-to-back 66-67 could have been about five strokes better.

Rory will be out in the final pairing with Jason Day, another immense talent who always seems to contend at the major championships. This was going to be a huge year for Day. He got the first WGC title of the year out in Arizona, and all was setup for that final breakthrough at one of the majors, presumably Augusta. But Day sustained a thumb injury and has not been healthy since that victory back in February. On Friday night, as he sat one shot off the pace, he even admitted he’s not 100 percent. But he has a ton of major championship experience, and now he’s got a chance to close one against his most challenging contemporary.

While Day and Rory are a perfect final pairing, the chasers inside the top 10 are just as decorated. Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Rickie Fowler, Henrik Stenson, Lee Westwood, and Steve Stricker are just some of the world-class guys within range of McIlroy. If a TV partner cannot get Tiger, this is the kind of group they want to see -- the guy everyone is hailing as the next great of the game on top, with Mickelson in the mix and a couple other top prospects like Day and Fowler right there.

TNT and CBS will now split the duties on the weekend at Valhalla. The folks at CBS spend much of the first two days mixing with some of the TNT people for first and second round coverage, but on the weekend afternoons, it’s all back to CBS. This is the high point of their summer schedule, their second biggest event behind the Masters. So they have to be pleased enough with the leaderboard and stories to spotlight on Saturday.

From a streaming standpoint, they’ll also provide an online simulcast of their TV broadcast, which is pretty standard now on the PGA Tour but was not offered by TNT in the first two rounds. So if you’re unable to get in front of a TV, you can easily watch online. In addition to the simulcast, PGA.com will keep their marquee groups and par-3 streams still running, and those are live at 11 a.m. ET before the simulcast. Here are all your media options for Saturday at Valhalla:

11 a.m.-2 p.m. -- TNT

2-7 p.m. -- CBS

2-7 p.m. -- CBS simulcast on CBSSports.com

1-7 p.m. -- SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio

11 a.m.-7 p.m. -- Par 3 stream via the PGA Championship app

11 a.m.-7 p.m. -- Marquee groups via the PGA Championship app

2-7 p.m. -- CBS simulcast via the CBS Sports app