Travelers Championship 2016 live stream: How to watch online, TV coverage schedule

While the Olympics have started for everyone else, the golf world is still focused on Hartford and the annual Travelers Championship. The men’s golf competition in Rio does not start until Thursday, running on the normal Tour schedule of a four-day stroke play event from Thursday through Sunday. While it was cool to see Rickie Fowler and other international stars march in the opening ceremony on Friday night, we still had a week to go before that tournament teed off and went back to watching Hartford.

After storms forced the Tour to adjust the Saturday schedule, the forecast is clean for Sunday’s final round and we should get an on-time finish around 6 p.m. on CBS. After watching the PGA Championship decide against moving up their tee times a week ago, and then losing an entire afternoon of a golf broadcast that resulted in a 36-hole Sunday sprint, the PGA Tour wasted no time in pushing their third round up this weekend. They put everyone together in groups of three off two tees and the round was completed early in the afternoon before the storms hit. Now, they’re set up on Sunday with the entire field through 54 holes and a regularly scheduled tee sheet that has the final pairing of Daniel Berger and Russell Knox going off at 2 p.m. ET.

The speculation on Twitter a week ago was that CBS had some influence and impact on the PGA of America deciding not to move their tee times up on Saturday. The networks almost always do and they wanted to avoid what would have been a guaranteed tape delayed showing of the third round. So they rolled the dice and ended up having to show footage of last year’s PGA while everyone sat around in the clubhouse while the rains poured at Baltusrol.

CBS obviously doesn’t have quite the same interest in showing tape delayed coverage of the Travelers like it does a major championship. And the headstrong PGA Tour was going to probably move things up regardless of whatever CBS felt about the matter. It worked out for everyone and now they’ll have the final round call for a three-hour block on Sunday. There is that annoying 30-minute coverage gap but the PGA Tour figured out a way around that in the middle of this season, putting the live world feed up on their PGA TOUR LIVE streaming service during that blackout stretch when coverage switches from Golf Channel to CBS.

In addition to the simulcast streams of both Golf Channel and CBS coverage, the Tour will also have a featured holes stream up and running by 10 a.m. Here are all your media options for the final 18 in Hartford (all times ET):

1 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream

2:30 to 6:30 p.m. -- CBS Sports/PGA Tour Live simulcast stream