How to watch the 2015 Valspar Championship live online, TV schedule, radio and more

The Florida swing jumps across the state from Miami to Tampa this weekend for the annual stop at Innisbrook. The Valspar Championship has become the odd tournament out on the Florida swing, drawing less hype and a thinner field compared to the other three tournaments -- the Honda Classic, WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral and the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.

While it doesn’t get the respect, has had a good amount of turnover with title sponsors and flies under the radar, the course is generally regarded as one of the best all season. It’s just in a brutal spot on the schedule, wedged in between Doral, where all the top players will tee it up because of the free WGC money and world rankings points, and Bay Hill, which has Arnold Palmer’s imprimatur drawing the best in the game for a pre-Masters tuneup. Adam Scott, probably the biggest name in the field this week, said as much on Wednesday.

That’s probably a shocking statement for some, and a bit of a blow to the egos at Bay Hill and Doral. But given the harsh critiques of Donald Trump’s Blue Monster last week, it’s not that wild of a minority opinion. The Copperhead Course at Innisbrook can be a player’s favorite even if the names like Tiger, Rory and Phil regularly bypass it on their schedule.

In addition to Scott, some of the other headliners this week are world No. 3 Henrik Stenson, Patrick Reed, Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Jim Furyk, Lee Westwood, Brandt Snedeker and Matt Kuchar. It’s a pretty solid cast of characters, all of whom are in full Masters prep mode. And this isn’t the worst place to get that pre-Augusta work in either.

Now that the field has been cut in half, the Tour will send the remaining weekend players off in groups of two throughout the day. Due to a mix of weather delays and a lack of daylight, the Tour had been utilizing groups of three off split tees on many weekends earlier this year. The final Sunday pairing of Jordan Spieth and Ryan Moore will be out just before 2 p.m. ET, setting up a targeted finish for 6 p.m.

Because of its relative lack of hype and spot on the schedule, the Valspar Championship doesn’t get quite the media coverage of the other Florida swing stops. This is still NBC’s stretch of the schedule, but they devote less time and resources compared to the Honda, WGC and Bay Hill. There is no Spotlight Coverage this week, the concurrent Saturday and Sunday Golf Channel broadcast that focuses on three or four holes with stats and graphics covering the screen while the normal coverage runs on NBC. The coverage window for the first two rounds is shrunk down to three hours following last week’s five-hour windows on Thursday and Friday. And the Sunday finish is earlier, scheduled for 6 p.m. Johnny Miller doesn’t even make it, ceding the lead analyst’s chair to Gary Koch in the 18th tower.

In addition to those more limited TV options, the streaming schedule is much lighter, too. PGATour.com does not set up a “Live At” stream focusing on featured groups or holes, as it has done almost every week this year. There’s very little in the way of online offerings. All you get are the typical simulcast streams each day, thanks to NBC/Golf Channel’s LiveExtra service. There’s a big gap in coverage on both Thursday and Friday morning because of this, when we usually have at least the PGATour.com stream going early in the round.

Despite the scaled back media coverage, this is still a tournament worth watching, especially on the weekend. You’d be excused, however, if you needed a break in between all the time you spent watching Doral and with Bay Hill and the Masters on the horizon. Here are all your media options for rest of the week in Tampa (all times ET):

1 to 3 p.m. -- Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. -- NBC

7 to midnight -- Replay on Golf Channel

1 to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream