Players Championship 2016 live stream: Time, TV schedule and how to watch Sunday’s round online

It will be impossible -- this year, and perhaps ever again -- to match the thrilling finish on Sunday at The Players last year. Rickie Fowler’s sprint to the top of the leaderboard over those manic final six holes, and then his show in the playoff, was the best television block of the year in golf.

That’s not going to happen again this year but we’re still set up for a bit of Sunday drama. The best player in the world, No. 1 Jason Day, maintains a four-shot lead and is in prime position to put even a little more distance between himself and all the other world-class talent out there. Given the way Day is playing -- he’s a machine -- and the margin he enjoys, don’t expect someone to chase him down. That shouldn’t deter you from watching. This is the best at his best right now and it’s breathtaking.

While a Sunday cruise by Day will be awesome to watch, it wouldn’t be particularly dramatic. But thanks to the PGA Tour, we now have a good bit a drama surrounding the course conditions at TPC Sawgrass. The greens, to put it mildly, became a major story on Saturday at Sawgrass. The Tour will tell you some unexpected changes in the weather led to a “perfect storm” of sorts, where a dip in the humidity and increased winds created greens that were running like glass. The players will tell you it was a disgrace and out of control. Either way, it became a mess and led to six-hour rounds, a record number of three putts, and a ton of entertaining (for the fan) outcries and tweets from the players. It was the story of the day and it’s hard to see how the PGA Tour makes it all that much better on Sunday.

It’s been a sleepy underwhelming stretch on Tour since the Masters, but this is a final round worth watching on a day that doesn’t have much in the way of #sports. NBC will have the TV coverage for an expanded five-hour block. It’s the start of a huge summer for them, with rights to The Open, Olympics, FedExCup and Ryder Cup. On the streaming side, you’ll be able to watch a simulcast of all the TV coverage via their LiveExtra service.

PGA TOUR LIVE will have the earliest streams up and running, with featured groups coverage going by 8:30 a.m. They will also have two featured streams, one focused largely on the island 17th green that will be up at Noon. Golf Channel’s “Live From” show is also a nice early morning companion before the afternoon broadcast is live. They show plenty of live shots from the big names at the big holes before the broadcast. Here are all your coverage options for the final 18 holes at Sawgrass:

9 a.m.-2 p.m. -- Golf Channel “Live From” The Players
2-7 p.m. -- NBC

8:30 a.m. -- PGA Tour Live starts with coverage from range and opening holes

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