Presidents Cup 2015 TV schedule: Coverage and start time for Sunday’s singles matches

There’s just one more day left in the last significant golf event of 2015, and the underdog Internationals have stepped up to make the Presidents Cup a game, keeping the Sunday singles session relevant and worth watching. The USA will enter with the final 12-point session with a one-point lead, the closest it has been this late in the event since 2005.

Compared with the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup has a much tougher time resonating with a TV audience. It does not have the history of the Ryder Cup, but it’s primary weakness has been competitiveness. The International side has won just once in 20 years, and they have been blown out consistently over the last decade. Those runaways have so often made this last Sunday singles session just a pro forma bore. So it just has not taken root like the Ryder Cup, which may be the most exciting event in the entire sport right now.

That uneven and short history makes it a tough sell during football season, which swallows up every other sport on fall weekends. This year’s cup is in Korea and for the American audience, it’s played deep into the middle of the night back in the States. It’s not an ideal combination for Golf Channel and NBC, the TV partners for this PGA Tour organized event. But it’s a reality of the event and if this is truly going to be a global competition, it will and should remain that way. The tour announced Saturday that the next International site in 2019 will be Melbourne, so again, there will more time zone issues back in the US.

Sunday’s singles should start just after 8 p.m. ET on Saturday night in the US, so if the late slate of college football games are flops, this miiiight be an alternative in prime time. The Sunday singles session can move quickly depending on how the dominoes fall. The winner this year needs 15.5 points to take the cup and if a particular side goes on a run in the first half of the 12 singles, it can end real early and render the last handful of matches meaningless.

Tee times for these one-on-one matches will span about two hours, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET. That’s a late change announced Saturday night, which ended in total darkness after a rain delay in the morning. So Sunday tee times are now 90 minutes earlier than originally scheduled. The broadcast window for Sunday’s singles runs until 2 a.m. ET, but it’s unlikely it goes that far.

If you’re a normal person and tend to be asleep or out doing things on a Saturday night, NBC will run a replay Sunday afternoon. Tape delayed golf is not the strongest competition for the NFL, but it’s there if you need it! Here are all your media options for the final session in Korea:

8 p.m. Sat. to 2 a.m. Sun. -- Golf Channel

Noon to 6 p.m. Sun. -- Replay on NBC