How to watch the TOUR Championship live online, TV schedule, radio and more

The end of the PGA Tour season is finally here, as the remaining 29 players in the FedEx Cup standings swing down to East Lake for the TOUR Championship. This event and this venue have hosted the postseason finale in each of the first seven years of the nascent FedEx Cup, with a mixed bag of late Sunday drama and runaway laughers. Last year’s winner, Henrik Stenson, did not even qualify for this year’s finale and, in fact, Bill Haas and Jim Furyk are the only former FEC winners playing at East Lake this year. Those two produced some of the better dramatic, come-from-behind endings in the championship, and the event is pretty wide open again this year.

This is the most exclusive field of the season. There are other limited no-cut tournaments, such as last week’s BMW Championship and the WGC titles, but none of them have such a small number of qualifiers. The final 30 who make it to Atlanta not only have a shot at the $10 million grand prize, but they also earn exemptions into a host of elite tournaments for next season, including the majors. This year’s Tour Championship, however, has the odd distinction of hosting just 29 players. That’s because Dustin Johnson, even after sitting out more than a month and the entire FedEx Cup, still slotted at No. 30 in the standings at the conclusion of Sunday’s BMW in Denver. DJ, of course, is indisposed at the moment so his spot will go unclaimed, but that $175k in bonus money is still headed his way.

The TOUR Championship will also be the last official PGA Tour event on network television this year. While this may conclude the “season” under the new wraparound schedule, there are still several PGA Tour events this calendar year. The 2015 season actually begins in October under the new schedule, starting with the Frys.com Open two weeks after the Ryder Cup. That entire Fall Series of events, which now have a full FedEx Cup point allotment, will count towards next years standings and will be carried only on Golf Channel.

So this is it for NBC on the Tour this year. CBS closed up shop three weeks ago at the Barclays and transitioned their team to football coverage. Dan Hicks, Johnny Miller, and the the NBC golf team led by Tommy Roy will have sole coverage of the Ryder Cup at the end of the month, and then also pop-up again for some light coverage of the World Challenge in December (Tiger Woods’ exclusive year-end game).

NBC will split duties again this week with their sister network, Golf Channel. But with such a small field, there will be no “spotlight coverage” at East Lake as there had been at the two preceding playoff events. The 30-man field means that the normal coverage window will have plenty of options and can show every golfer out on the course, as opposed to most events where an AM draw is done well before the cameras are live. In addition to the TV coverage, there will also be the usual streams up and running each day -- one a simulcast of all the NBC/Golf Channel broadcasts, and the other a featured groups stream on PGATour.com.

Here’s the entire media schedule for the week:

1 to 6 p.m. ET -- Golf Channel

8:30 to 1:30 a.m. -- Golf Channel (replay)

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

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

Noon to 2:30 p.m. ET -- Golf Channel

2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. -- NBC

6:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. -- Golf Channel (replay)

Noon to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream

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

Noon to 1:30 p.m. ET -- Golf Channel

1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. -- NBC

7 p.m. to 1 a.m. -- Golf Channel (replay)

Noon to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream