How to watch the Waste Management Phoenix Open live online, TV schedule, radio and more

The wildest stop on the PGA Tour tees off this week at TPC Scottsdale, where the circus will be even larger than normal. The Super Bowl is in town, already adding to the hype and crowds that usually attend this golf tournament, and Tiger Woods is here for the first time in 14 years. This was already the loudest, highest attended event on the PGA Tour schedule, but these next four days will be its biggest ever.

Last year, the Phoenix Open set a new attendance record, with 563,008 people coming through the gates across four days. That eclipsed the previous Tour record, which was this same event when the 2008 Super Bowl was played in Arizona. So expect last year’s record to be blown out of the water. Woods is the ultimate draw in golf, and the singular moneymaker in the game. A tournament completely changes as soon as he says it will be on his schedule. That was evident on Wednesday, when the grandstands surrounding the famed 16th hole were even near capacity (~20k) for a simple pro-am.

If you’re unable to be a part of the record-setting crowds, there will be several ways to watch throughout the tournament. If you’re stuck back in the cold, depressed and sitting in a cubicle somewhere, you can ignore your work and watch shots at the 16th hole all week. This is the first event of the year where PGATour.com will offer their own streaming channel, and all four days, they will be posted up at the loudest hole in golf. That starts right from the first tee time on Thursday at TPC Scottsdale.

This is also the first event of the season that CBS will broadcast. Golf Channel, with a few quick windows from sister network NBC, has had sole coverage of the first three events of the new year (and all 7 of last year’s wraparound events that count towards this season). But as the calendar flips to February, the season of Nantz arrives and CBS will take the reins from Golf Channel to carry coverage of the final two rounds. There will be that annoying half-hour blackout period, which always seems to come as the leaders are teeing off, for each weekend round as the crews and graphics are switched out from Golf Channel to CBS. That will be the arrangement for the next month or on the West Coast swing, one of the better stretches for the CBS golf operation.

Both networks will also offer a simulcast stream online of all the TV coverage. So there’s always that option if you’re unable to get in front of a TV or would just rather have inane Super Bowl pregame festivities up on the primary screen. Here are all your media options for the week at TPC Scottsdale:

3 to 7 p.m. — Golf Channel

3 to 7 p.m. — Golf Channel simulcast stream

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

3 to 7 p.m. — Golf Channel simulcast stream

1 to to 2:30 p.m. — Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. — CBS

1 to 2:30 p.m. — Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream

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