How to watch the Hyundai Tournament of Champions live online, TV schedule, and more

There are very few weeks the PGA Tour can truly claim as its own and lead sports coverage. A week here and there in the summer during a dead stretch, the majors (sometimes), or if Tiger does something spectacular. The first weekend in January is definitely not one of those times. Football owns everything and the Tour obviously never expects to compete with the NFL playoffs or the NCAA title game.

The Tour has, however, tried to dodge that head-to-head competition with football in the past. In recent years at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, the Tour opted for a Friday-to-Monday schedule, with the final round finishing just before kickoff of the college football title game back on the continental U.S. There were some close calls -- remember Jason Dufner hustling from the course to watch Florida State-Auburn? The CFB pregame hype programming also eclipsed whatever golf was being played out in Hawaii.

This year the schedule is back to a traditional Sunday finish and it should conclude again well after the final Wild Card game has ended at FedEx Field. The final pairing of Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka tees off at 6:01 p.m. ET, setting up a finish right around 10 p.m. ET. It’s hard to find elbow room on Sunday nights, but at least it’s not head-to-head with football.

Golf Channel will also get a boost from the profile of the 54-hole leader and likely 2016 winner. Spieth strolls to Sunday’s final round with a 5-shot lead and there’s no real reason to think he will not win by at least that much. Sure, there are super low rounds out there -- his playing partner, young stud Koepka, posted a 10-under 63 on Saturday. But even those rounds aren’t enough to catch the hottest player in the world. Even when he’s hitting loose shots and doesn’t have his best game, as he did for about five very shaky holes in the third round, he still somehow manages to post a score (8-under 65 in this instance). His lead actually went up by a stroke from four to five on a day he thought he might be in trouble.

Spieth is the primary face the Tour and the networks are marketing and pushing. The only better circumstances for those parties would be if Rory McIlroy, who is not playing this week, or Jason Day were in a fight with Spieth at the top of the leaderboard. That’s greedy though, and Spieth in command at this usually sleepy and laid-back event should provide a nice bump late Sunday night.

If you’re unable to watch on TV, Golf Channel will simulcast stream its entire four-hour broadcast via its LiveExtra service. Here are all your media options for the final round:

6 to 10 p.m. -- Golf Channel

11 p.m. to 3 a.m. (Replay) -- Golf Channel

6 to 10 p.m. -- Golf Channel simulcast stream