Phoenix Open 2016 live stream: How to watch Sunday’s round online, TV coverage and more

Finally, Waste Management Phoenix Open Sunday has arrived! The final round of the wild and rowdy PGA Tour stop at TPC Scottsdale has slotted into a traditional spot on Super Bowl Sunday, which, understandably, can overshadow the golf. But the way the Phoenix Open has created its own identity as the most untraditional and un-golf event in the game has made it a tournament that’s worth watching for the larger sports population, especially if you’re fatigued from all the pregame blather and over-analysis. Do you really need to watch six hours worth of Super Bowl pregame trash?

The more seasoned sports viewer knows well by now that the Phoenix Open is a perfect lead-in to kickoff, even if you’re not all that into golf. The PGA Tour set tee times that should result in a finish safely before the scheduled 6 p.m. conclusion. They obviously understand they have no chance of going head-to-head with that last block of Super Bowl pregame stuff and just want to carve out an audience where they can.

NBC will have the call for the final round, pushing and promoting their major offseason signing, David Feherty, all along the way. Feherty, of course, had done work with NBC’s Comcast sister, Golf Channel, in the past but now he’s exclusively under that umbrella. His old network, CBS, would typically broadcast this event along with all the others on the west coast swing but they have much bigger things happening all day Sunday. Jim Nantz will be tied up with Phil Simms and there’s that need for all-day pregame coverage so they yield to NBC here.

The networks and Tour have a pretty good scenario set up for Sunday too, with Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler both in contention and playing in the last two groups of the day. Aside from Bubba Watson ripping the course and then getting mercilessly heckled, the week has mostly been about those two stars. The loudest cheers have come for them at the boozy and overcrowded 16th hole, and they won’t come through there until the very end on Sunday when the bleachers are at their most overserved.

If you do want to have the pregame fluff running on TV, there are multiple second-screen ways to watch the final round. Golf Channel and NBC will simulcast stream all their coverage from 1 to 6 p.m. ET and PGA TOUR LIVE will also have a featured holes stream dedicated to that scene at the 16th. That will be up and running by 11:30 a.m. ET so they’ll show just about every shot hit there on Sunday. Here are all your media options for the final round:

1 to 6 p.m.: Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream

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