2015 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am live stream: How to watch online, TV coverage and more

The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is one of the better PGA Tour events for a television audience. The field may not be the deepest of the season -- Tiger Woods almost never plays here anymore. But the course is obviously one of the most beautiful in the world and easy to highlight to fill up air time. And the handful of celebrities, and we use that term loosely, are easy to track and follow for a little side entertainment if the actual tournament is a bore.

Bill Murray has become the face of the amateur entertainers at this tournament. He’s probably the most famous, too. There are no elite quarterbacks playing this year, as Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning (and Joe Flacco) all passed. The list of non-golf sportsmen is pretty weak compared to most years. The amateurs are the usual mix of c-listers, country musicians, and business people in high places who know the right person. Oh, and Chris Berman, too. There’s always Boomer on-hand at this event to entertain. From last year:

And the year before:

He’ll be paired with his usual pro, Connecticut native J.J. Henry.

So there are obviously other -- tangents for the broadcast to go off on at Pebble. As usual, the first three rounds will be played on three separate courses in the Monterey Peninsula area. There’s no other place on the planet with such a concentration of world-class golf courses. The best one in this packed Peninsula isn’t even in use for this tournament. Cypress Point, which is right down the street from Pebble, is too exclusive to host a PGA Tour event and open its gates to TV cameras and spectating hordes. So the 300-plus players will be split between Pebble, Spyglass Hill, and Monterey Peninsula Country Club’s Shore Course for the first three rounds.

The TV broadcast originates from Pebble Beach and that’s where you’ll see almost all of the tournament coverage for the first three days. The major equipment is there and that’s the course that is the namesake and main attraction. You might get a live look-in or highlight from some of the bigger names playing Spyglass or MPCC, but for the most part, it’s all Pebble Beach.

Golf Channel will have sole coverage of the first two rounds before splitting duties with CBS on the weekend. They’ll come on the air at 3 p.m. ET Thursday. The first tee time is not until 11 a.m. ET so the entire field will be playing for at least a portion of the coverage window. Patrick Reed, John Daly and Hunter Mahan will be some of the bigger names playing Pebble for the first round, so expect to see plenty of their shots when GC goes live. Here are your media options for opening round:

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)