2014 TOUR Championship streaming: How to watch online, TV coverage and more

After the threat of storms significantly altered tee times on Friday, the schedule returns to normal for Saturday’s third round at the TOUR Championship. Late Thursday night, PGA Tour officials looked at a forecast that called for a good chance of rain on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Atlanta. So they moved Friday’s tee times up three hours, forcing Golf Channel to alter its broadcast on the fly and move it up three hours. The round was completed on time, avoiding any back-up into the weekend where more rain could hit the area. With just 29 players in the field and a lot of flexibility to work around weather delays, the Tour will start the final 36 holes of the season on its original schedule. The final pairing is expected to tee off at 2:30 p.m. ET with an estimated finish right around 6 p.m.

NBC will join its Comcast sister network Golf Channel for weekend coverage of the season finale. This is the last official PGA Tour event which will air on network TV this year. Golf Channel takes over with sole coverage of the fall series. NBC still has the Ryder Cup in two weeks and dabbles with Tiger Woods’ limited-field party at the World Challenge, but this is it for PGA Tour events on the big networks. There just aren’t many appealing events left, and football, both college and the NFL, gobbles up all the resources and air time.

So this weekend is one of the few remaining chances to get your fill of Johnny Miller takes. At the Ryder Cup, he’s usually in full as he blasts the choke jobs in what has become the most intense pressure setting in the game. There’s pressure to win $10 million this weekend, but nothing like what he’ll get to hype and feast on at Gleneagles.

The coverage will start at Noon on Golf Channel, which is actually 15 minutes before the first tee time goes off No. 1. The field is so small that there’s so little traffic out on the course that pretty much every twosome is finishing their round in well under four hours. So that’s likely the reason for the even later start, that final pairing going out at 2:30 as opposed to 2 p.m.

And right as Rory McIlroy and Billy Horschel hit the first tee, NBC will take over from Golf Channel. One advantage to having these sister networks split the duties is that there’s no half-hour blackout period during the changeover. That’s what we got all year when Golf Channel had to kick it to CBS on the weekends, their crews needing a half hour to switch out personnel and graphics. That off-air window always seemed to come as the leaders played the first three to five holes of their round, so it’s nice to have no wait and jump right into the NBC switch as the leaders step onto the first tee.

In addition to the TV coverage, the usual streaming options will be available on Saturday. Golf Channel and NBC will have a simulcast of the entire final round broadcast up and running via their LiveExtra service, while PGATour will also have a separate stream going that focuses on a few specific holes at East Lake. Here’s the full media schedule for Saturday at the TOUR Championship:

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. -- PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208)