How to watch Monday’s Zurich Classic live online, TV schedule and more

The PGA Tour is used to dealing with weather disruptions and inconveniences, but the 2016 Zurich Classic has been a mess in its own separate category. The annual stop in New Orleans has featured some of the longest weather delays in recent years on Tour, and they have been unrelenting each and every day. All hope of a full 72-hole event was gone early Sunday morning, with the more desperate pleas to mother nature to just allow a 54-hole event to finish up sometime Monday.

That 54-hole event looks more unlikely, as storms are in the forecast throughout Monday as well. There have been just three 54-hole events in the last 10 years on the PGA Tour, all of which were won by Dustin Johnson. While it’s not ideal, at 54 holes, the tournament is at least counted as an official event. If it’s just 36 holes, then the PGA Tour does not make it official -- the winner still gets his money and FedExCup points, but not that coveted two-year exemption and the host of invites into the majors and other premier events on the schedule.

The entire week has been a start-and-stop scramble to try and squeeze as many holes in around the storms that have overwhelmed TPC Louisiana. The third round resumed on Sunday morning at 7:31 a.m. CT but they were called off the course at 10:08 a.m. local and that would be it on a day of never-ending lightning and rain. That’s happened all week, with the afternoon broadcasts basically just a bunch of Tour pros lounging around a clubhouse and repeat coverage from last year’s Zurich Classic.

The bad news is that a similar forecast is supposed to play out on Monday, with a tight early morning window to get in some play before storms hit for most of the rest of the day. The first group out has just five holes to play while the leaders are just five holes into their round. They need about 3.5 hours to get in the third round. To complicate the already challenging nightmare: if more than half the field finishes the third round, then everyone has to finish the third round, meaning this could go to Tuesday if a handful of groups finish up Monday morning before daylong storms arrive and strand the leaders out on the course. A Tuesday finish never happens (twice in the last 36 years) and is a worst-case scenario but it’s certainly in play if the rains come again at NOLA.

Even if the storms do stop, making the course playable after all this rain is also part of the challenge now. If less than half the field finishes 54 holes, then the Tour would likely revert back to the 36-hole leaderboard and Brian Stuard would be your winner of an “unofficial” event.

The Monday resumption of the third round will start at 8 a.m. ET (7 a.m. local) and Golf Channel will have the coverage. We might actually get to watch golf for a few hours, too, unlike Sunday’s mess.

8 a.m. ET -- Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream

8 a.m. ET -- PGA TOUR LIVE simulcast of TV coverage (no subscription needed)

And here’s your leaderboard at the start of the day:

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