Wyndham Championship 2015 live stream: How to watch Tiger Woods online, TV coverage and more

The Wyndham Championship is supposed to be some sleepy little event that bridges the gap between the season’s final major and the start of the FedExCup Playoffs. The diehards and close golf-watchers tune in because it’s compelling to watch the lesser-known and fringe players grind out the regular season finale trying to make the FedExCup cutoff or improve their status on Tour or just keep their Tour card. It’s never a tournament that gets mainstream coverage.

This Sunday, however, should easily become the most watched final round in the tournament’s history. Tiger Woods enters Sunday with his best chance to win in almost two years, sitting two shots off the lead and playing in the penultimate group late in the afternoon. Tiger’s charge over the last three days, after this most miserable summer, has whipped up the crowds in Greensboro and put the Wyndham front-and-center in the sports world. His contention on the weekend even had some questioning if this lower-level event could challenge or surpass the ratings at last week’s PGA Championship. The ratings from Friday afternoon, when Tiger played during the TV window, were up 234 percent from the previous year’s second round in Greensboro.

For all the statements that this was the year that the Tiger dependence was overcome on the PGA Tour, this week has just reaffirmed that he remains, far and away, the top draw and attraction in golf. Those statements weren’t inaccurate -- this was a transitional summer where the new faces of the game won the biggest events and the post-Tiger era came into clear focus. But no one will ever again match the interest and mania that Tiger stirs up, especially when he’s playing well.

Tiger’s round will start just before 2 p.m. ET, during Golf Channel’s early coverage of the round. They will show his first two or three holes before that obnoxious 30-minute blackout period occurs when GC and CBS split duties on the weekend. The explanation is that the time is needed to change graphics in the truck and move in the CBS talent, which is not an issue when Comcast relatives GC and NBC share the coverage. This Sunday’s 30-minute break will obviously incite much more frustration because the larger masses will be trying to watch Tiger make this improbable run to a late-season win.

Tiger is always a tournament-changing, money-making player, even at 286th in the world rankings and at a lower-tier event. It’s great for fans, critics, and definitely the TV networks to have him actually competitive and in the hunt late on a Sunday. Here are all your media options for the final round in Greensboro:

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

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