How to watch Sunday’s Northern Trust Open live online, TV schedule, radio and more

The Northern Trust Open gets sandwiched between the end of the West Coast swing and the start of the more popular Florida swing, but the annual stop at Riviera remains one of the best tournaments of the year. Riviera Country Club may be the best non-major venue on the regular PGA Tour schedule. It’s a classic layout with loads of character, and it hasn’t been rendered obsolete by the technology explosion that’s made so many of the country’s most famous layouts unplayable for the Tour pros.

The Northern Trust Open draws a pretty good field given its spot on the schedule. Most players who go west might be worn out by the end of the West Coast swing, or choose this week to take a break before the Honda Classic or the WGC at Doral, which always draws the top ranked players in the world. Most of that attraction to the NTO is the allegiance to the course, and spending a week in Los Angeles, where the Tour goes only once per season, isn’t bad either. This is a major championship course, but given the conditions, grass and overall size of the property, it keeps getting passed over by the USGA and PGA of America. There’s been recent reports of the U.S. Open going to nearby Los Angeles Country Club in 2023, but right now, this is the only time all year a big league golf tournament stops in the area.

This is also the last event that CBS will cover until the Masters, which tees off in exactly 50 days. NBC and Golf Channel split the duties for the Florida swing and two pre-Augusta stops in Texas, while CBS focuses on college basketball and the NCAA Tournament. So while the “Season of Nantz” may be here, the sweatered CBS anchor will be shifting to the nobilities of Big Ten basketball and the pageantry of amateur athletics’ finest one-and-done tournament. For Nantz, this isn’t exactly Pebble Beach, where he keeps a home, but it’s still the kind of classic track that makes him salivate.

This week’s NTO will offer multiple streams each day of the tournament, including three separate concurrent options on the weekend. Golf Channel and CBS will have their usual simulcast stream up and running, so you can see every shot that’s shown on TV. On the weekend, CBS and the Tour will also have a second stream running that simulcasts the TV coverage but also peppers the screen with stats and data, both instant ShotLink info and season-long numbers.

PGATour.com will have its featured holes stream back after a week off at Pebble. That will focus on the iconic 10th and 16th holes at Riv. The 10th is regarded as one of the best, if not the best, par-4 on the PGA Tour schedule. It’s a drivable par-4 that is usually set up just a few yards over 300, but it’s the classic risk-reward menace. The green is puny and severely sloped, and there’s no easy way to run it up onto the putting surface, like many drivable par-4s on Tour. All around the green are the most unfortunate spots that would commonly be referred to as “jail.” In one weekend, two players at the 2013 Northern Trust Open praised and ripped it (via the LA Times):

The man who won the Northern Trust Open in a playoff Sunday called it “one of the great par fours we play.” The man who lost in the playoff called it “funky” and added, “They might as well put a windmill out there.”

So it’s an incredibly interesting and divisive hole, and one of the best places to set up a “featured holes” stream all season.

Sunday’s featured groups stream will focus on Camilo Villegas, Hunter Mahan, and Brian Stuard (11:40 a.m. ET tee time) early in the round and then switch to the marquee group of Dustin Johnson, Jim Furyk, and James Hahn (12:59 p.m. ET tee time) for the conclusion.