How to watch the Memorial Tournament live online, TV schedule, radio and more

The PGA Tour swings up to Ohio this week for the annual one-week homage to the greatest player who ever lived. Jack Nicklaus is at an age and place in the game where his public appearances are fewer and farther between, but the Memorial is the one week when we know we’ll get plenty of quotes and camera-time from the 18-time major winner.

The Memorial is the biggest event on the PGA Tour schedule between The Players and the U.S. Open, and it’s the last appearance before the season’s second major for most of the top names in the game. That includes Tiger Woods, who’s back at Jack’s place after missing last year’s edition because of that microdiscectomy back surgery. This is one of those venues and tournaments that Tiger has owned throughout his career -- you can say the same for pretty much every place he’s played annually over the past couple decades.

The dominance is not quite to the extent of Torrey Pines, Firestone, Bay Hill, or Doral, but Tiger still has five Memorial wins on his resume. The host and course designer has only two, and Kenny Perry, making his final PGA Tour appearance in a 30-year career, is next closest with three Memorial wins. That familiarity with the track allowed him to spend a few days out in Seattle prepping for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay before dropping in late to Muirfield on Wednesday for one day of practice.

While this has been a dream season for a Tour trying to transition eras with young and marketable players winning big events, a little Tiger patronage still changes everything. He’s 172nd in the world rankings but there are still “Tiger tournaments” and then everything else on the PGA Tour schedule. Accordingly, Golf Channel and CBS will expand their coverage a bit from the normal week-to-week schedule.

Golf Channel will expand their window to four hours for the first two days. Tiger, playing with Patrick Reed and Jason Day, will be out in the afternoon wave on Friday. Unless there’s a major weather delay, his first round should be well over when Thursday’s broadcast goes live at 2:30 p.m. ET. For CBS, this is probably their biggest event until that mid-August stretch with the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and PGA Championship in back-to-back weeks.

In addition to the longer TV broadcasts, there are also multiple streaming options all weekend. PGATour.com will have their “Live At” coverage running all day for all four rounds. That won’t be a featured holes stream but rather a featured groups stream for each round. And as usual, both CBS and Golf Channel will have every minute of their TV coverage simulcast online.

Beyond that, PGATour.com will also have a “ShotLink stream” up and running on the weekend. This is a cool and different way to watch the normal CBS broadcast. The Tour peppers the screen with stats and graphics, akin to NBC/Golf Channel’s “Spotlight Coverage,” which some call the future of televised golf. That stream with all that analytics data, which has come to consume the game, can be found on the Tour’s streaming hub.

Here are all your media options for the entire week in Columbus:

2:30 to 6:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel

2:30 to 6:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel simulcast stream

12:30 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel

3 to 6 p.m. -- CBS