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

The third round of the BMW Championship should feature the biggest stars left in the postseason battling on the first page of the leaderboard. Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy are playing in the final tee time of the day, with Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Jordan Spieth, Jim Furyk, and Martin Kaymer not far behind. The 2014 FedEx Cup has been a bit underwhelming to this point, but given the star power in contention at the midpoint, and the classic Cherry Hills venue where players bomb the ball at Colorado altitude, we’re set up for a rejuvenating weekend.

The weekend coverage will be split between Comcast sister networks Golf Channel and NBC. With the NFL now back on Sundays, CBS closed up their golf operations to switch over full time to football. The Barlcays, two weeks ago, was their final broadcast of the year. NBC, however, has no such football conflicts on Sundays so we get Dan Hicks and Johnny Miller to close out the season. The FedEx Cup is, of course, no competition to college football or the NFL and it won’t be any kind of lead-in to Sunday Night Football on NBC. But this weekend’s BMW Championship will have some of the most comprehensive coverage of the season.

As they’ve done for several of their bigger tournaments all season, Golf Channel and NBC will once again put their “spotlight coverage” into play for the BMW Championship. This is a concurrent broadcast on Golf Channel that compliments the normal broadcast you can watch on NBC. Spotlight coverage focuses on just three holes, in this instance, the three finishing holes at Cherry Hills. There is a separate set of announcers, and the screen is loaded with data, stats, and tracer technology for almost every tee sheet. There’s also live TrackMan info for each player’s swing, a device that continues to get plenty of publicity as a teaching tool (for better or worse).

The tournament stats, cumulative season stats, and that TrackMan data are probably elements that will seep into the future of many more broadcasts.

The BMW is typically played in the Chicago area, but this is the first year we’ve gone west to Denver. The time zone and limited 70-man field with just two hours of tee times allowed Golf Channel to carry their coverage up into primetime for the first two rounds. But with football bearing down on Sunday on NBC, things will be pushed back up to their normal time for the final two rounds. They’re targeting a 6 p.m. finish each day (or 4 p.m. local). Coverage will first begin on Golf Channel at 1 p.m. ET. Here are your media options for the third round:

1 to 3 p.m. ET -- Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. -- NBC

3 to 5 p.m. -- Golf Channel “spotlight coverage” of Cherry Hills CC finishing holes (Nos. 16-18)

9:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. -- Golf Channel (replay)

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

1 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)