How to watch the 2015 Cadillac Championship at Doral online, TV schedule and more

It should not have been that easy for J.B. Holmes. But the three-time PGA Tour winner made the the Doral Blue Monster look like some impotent TPC course that yields birdies at every turn.

While the rest of this elite field got smashed on a windy day in Miami, Holmes cleanly navigated through all those water troubles with a 10-under round of 62. It was 11.4 strokes -- read that again -- better than the field scoring average on Thursday. This is just the first week of March, but it will be the round of the year without a doubt. Holmes didn’t hit every fairway (7/14), but he scrambled perfectly and poured in absolutely everything from 15-feet and in on the greens. It was flawless and given the field and the way the course was playing, almost incomprehensible. His competitors sure thought so:

And that’s just a small sampling. The four-shot margin after just 18 holes is the largest since Phil Mickelson’s lead at the Phoenix Open, and that came after Lefty missed a round of 59 on the cruelest of lip-outs.

So Holmes is sitting in the driver’s seat with 54 to play. But the field is obviously the strongest of the season with the entire top 50 in the World Rankings playing the same tournament for the first time since August 2012. And there’s obviously all that water trouble that could prompt a crooked number real quick for Holmes and bring him back to the pack. It’s likely we add plenty to the 85 total water balls from Thursday this weekend, and Holmes is going to deposit one at some point -- it’s inevitable given the way the course is playing and all the water that lurks on the Hanse redesigned Monster.

Holmes is off the 1st tee in the last group of the day, playing with Thongchai Jaidee and Joost Luiten at 1:12 p.m. ET. The other two will largely be ignored due to their place towards the bottom of the leaderboard, but Holmes should have his every shot shown in the second round. Golf Channel will go live earlier than normal again on Friday, coming on the air at 1 p.m. ET for a five-hour broadcast. The typical second-round coverage runs for three hours, or four hours if it’s a bigger tournament. But the WGCs are clearly a different animal with the small and exclusive field and all the international star power in attendance.

Golf Channel will also have another one-hour pregame show that’s on-site at Doral. This will have plenty of live look-ins and highlights of any of the players who start before 1 p.m. ET, including Rory McIlroy. The world No. 1 tees off at 12:39 p.m. ET and should be on his second hole when the broadcast starts. Because this is such a small field, the Tour condenses tee times into a two-hour window (11 a.m. to ~1 p.m.) so the entire field is on the course at the same time. That gives Golf Channel a ton of flexibility to shoot around the course and show the different world-class players in this field. It’s a luxury that doesn’t exist at any of the normal week-to-week events. McIlroy, and his group with No. 2 Bubba Watson and No. 3 Henrik Stenson, will no doubt get plenty of that love from the cameras throughout Friday afternoon.

If you’re stuck in the office on a Friday afternoon, you can still watch online via Golf Channel’s LiveExtra service. That will have a simulcast of the entire 5-hour broadcast at 1 p.m. ET. There’s also a featured holes stream focused on the par-5 1st at PGATour.com. Here are all your media options for the second round:

1 to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel simulcast stream