How to watch the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am live online, TV schedule, radio and more

The PGA Tour’s West Coast swing features the best stretch of courses and venues on the schedule, and this week might be the highlight of it all. The annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (nee Crosby Clambake) swings up to the Monterey Peninsula, where three beauties will host the best players in the world and some notable amateurs. While there are ample courses worthy of hosting a PGA Tour event in this small corner of the world, this tournament has settled in nicely at Pebble, Spyglass Hill, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Shore Course.

The West Coast swing might take place when most of the country is not yet paying attention to golf and the PGA Tour, but it’s a really strong start to the schedule. There’s the rowdiness of the Phoenix Open, the test at beautiful Torrey Pines, the unique pro-am setting at the most “felicitous meeting of land and sea in creation,” and the Tour’s only L.A. stop at the classic Riviera. The fields may not be the deepest of the year and can’t compete with WGC events, but these courses almost make it worth watching alone. It’s a refreshing departure from the monotonous and anodyne TPC courses that litter the schedule.

Of course Pebble is the most famous course in the rotation this week. But by most ratings and measurements, it’s not even the best layout in the neighborhood. That honor often goes to Cypress Point, which is too exclusive to open its gates to the peasant masses and television cameras that accompany a PGA Tour event.

Golf Channel and CBS will continue to split the broadcast duties this week, which is the arrangement for most of the West Coast swing. Even though there are three venues in play, giving the Tour plenty of flexibility to schedule the field, the rounds at this event are tediously long. A little inclement weather or marine layer fog can screw up the schedule, which generally makes room for the six-hour rounds that occur with these foursomes of pros and amateur hackers. Before the cut, however, every player should be on one of the three courses no later than 10:15 a.m. local out in Monterey. The schedule not only gives the Tour flexibility setting up the tee sheet, but it’s obviously ideal for the broadcast partners.

Golf Channel will have sole coverage of the first two rounds, providing three hours each afternoon. For the first three days, the broadcast focuses mostly on players at Pebble Beach, where all the major equipment is set up for the entire week. You’ll get occasional look-ins or highlights from Spyglass or MPCC, but this is a Pebble Beach operation for the first three days. On Sunday, with CBS carrying the conclusion, the entire remaining field plays the fourth and final round at Pebble.

As they’ve done all season, both Golf Channel and CBS will have simulcast streams up and running for every minute they’re live on TV. The Tour, however, is doing away with the featured holes stream which had been available the past two weeks. That’s a bit of a shame, really, because it would be fun to watch pros and amateurs loft wedges down to the par-3 7th at Pebble. It’s the shortest hole on the Tour but it can be one of the most nerve-wracking, given the changes in wind and the diminutive green. Even with no stream dedicated to that hole, expect much of the two network broadcasts to cover all the play at No. 7 and the rest of Pebble’s seaside holes. Here are all your coverage options for the week:

3 to 6 p.m. — Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. — Golf Channel simulcast stream

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

3 to 6 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)