Wells Fargo Championship 2015 live stream: How to watch Rory McIlroy online, TV coverage and more

The final round of the Wells Fargo Championship will not match the wild finish from a week ago at The Players, but it’s worth watching for an entirely different reason -- the best player in the world is at his best.

Rory McIlroy starts Sunday’s final round at Quail Hollow with a four-shot lead over Webb Simpson following a new course record round of 61. That mark beat his own record 62, which he set here on a Sunday in 2010 as a chubby, shaggy-haired 20 year old that looked like one of the game’s next great players. The intervening years have proved that, and he appears to be streaking towards another dominant summer. That Jordan Spieth record-setting Masters win may have pushed McIlroy a bit, and now he’ll go out on a Sunday stroll that should secure his second win in the last three weeks.

When McIlroy is playing well, nobody can touch him. But Saturday’s round was a different monster. He made nine birdies in a 10-hole stretch and 11 total, breaking event records and his chasers’ will. He’d been posting top 10s, and even a win at the WGC Match Play, with his C or B game. His weekend at the Masters was better than Spieth’s, he was just in a hole from an ugly start. There have been short birdie streaks with wayward drives and bogeys scattered throughout his cards. It was still good enough to compete at these events with the deepest fields in the world. But he had yet to blitz a course and a tournament in the way that shot him to No. 1 last summer.

Last year, we started multiple Sundays with that Tiger-like feeling of inevitability with Rory on top of the leaderboard. There were some world-class contenders at the Open, the PGA, and the WGC event in Akron. But each day Rory started as the favorite and with no real reason to doubt that he would not convert. He started Sunday’s final round at Firestone chasing Sergio Garcia, but you knew he was going to zip past and comfortably clinch another monster paycheck.

This seems even more inevitable -- he’s got that four-shot lead over Simpson, but beyond that, the next closest guy is Robert Streb and he’s seven shots back. Rory has shot par or better 16 of 21 times at this course, and converted six of his eight 54-hole leads. He’s not imploding, and even though Simpson is a great player and a member at this course, there will be no chasedown.

So we won’t get the thrill of Rickie Fowler losing his mind and jumping up a clustered leaderboard, or an extra-holes playoff. But we will get hours of Jim Nantz and friends salivating over the No. 1 player in the world. With a little perspective (parodying one perhaps?), an excitable Nantz is worth watching and listening to on a Sunday afternoon. The purple prose will be thick during the final round broadcast in Charlotte.

McIlroy tees off at 1:45 p.m., meaning he’ll play a portion of his final round during that ever-annoying blackout period when the coverage switches from Golf Channel to CBS. It’s become routine on the weekends, and Twitter will be angry again on Sunday when the broadcast goes off the air as Rory plays his fourth or fifth hole. The official explanation is that the networks need a half hour to switch out their graphics packages and get the talent in place. That’s not an issue when NBC has the weekend coverage because they are a Comcast sister of Golf Channel. But with CBS, that blackout persists.

If you’re unable to get in front of a TV, the usual simulcast stream will be up and running throughout the afternoon. Here are all your media options for the final round:

1 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. -- CBS

1 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream