How to watch the Genesis Open at Riviera live online, TV schedule and more

There will be longer days on the PGA Tour this year, but Sunday is going to be a sunup to sundown sprint at the Genesis Open.

The heavy rains and strong storms came for Los Angeles, as expected at the start of the week, and wreaked havoc on the schedule at Riviera. While it’s been a mess over the last two days, it could have been much worse. The most severe rains just barely missed the Pacific Palisades venue and hammered the greater LA area just to the north.

Still, Riv took on 2.9 inches of rain on Friday night alone and got more on Saturday. If you were to ask PGA Tour officials, however, they would probably tell you they got in more golf than expected on Friday and Saturday, which had the potential to be complete washouts with no play at all.

What we’re left with is 36 holes to play on Sunday for the leaders. There are some groups that got out there in the third round on Saturday night, but not very far on the course. There were still two tee times — 20 minutes — that had to start this morning at the bottom of the third-round tee sheet.

Dustin Johnson is leading and in one of those remaining tee times, and he will be the focus of the early-morning third round coverage. DJ goes at 10 a.m. ET and will be on PGA Tour Live’s featured groups stream in the morning. He’ll probably also be a focus of the fourth-round coverage, which will go overtime and into the night back in the eastern United States.

While the weather has been miserable and the schedule a mess, this has been a breakout week of sorts for PGA Tour Live, the Tour’s own over-the-top streaming service in its second full season. With play going way later than planned and until it’s too dark to see the ball, and starts at the crack of dawn in Los Angeles, there’s been a lot of golf played outside the allotted TV windows.

There’s also an absolutely loaded field here with eight of the top 10 in the world rankings teeing it up at Riv. PGA Tour Live has pounced on the opportunity, showing golf and those top-ranked stars around the clock when TV has had to go off the air the last two days. It will be back on the air early again on Sunday and covering it live until play ends, which could come as late as 8 or 8:30 p.m. ET.

Sunset is around 5:40 p.m. local in LA, and the Tour will have to race through two rounds. It will not re-pair the groups according to score, as is custom. So when you finish, you’ll get a quick break and go right back out with the same guys you played the third round with, not necessarily those closest to you on the leaderboard. That final DJ group should be done around 11:30 a.m. local (2:30 ET) with its third round and then get back out there shortly thereafter to chase the sun with what will hopefully be a crisp four-hour round.

While the TV coverage has a hard ending time for the first three rounds, it will obviously run later on Sunday and take you all the way up until the finish and a champion is determined. So CBS will go late covering the fourth round and then switch back over to Golf Channel if it gets too late and runs into its preferred Sunday night programming. It will be CBS graphics, and analysts, and production, just broadcast on Golf Channel.

Here’s the tentative schedule for Sunday’s final round:

1 to 2:30 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

3 to 6:30 p.m. ET (or conclusion) — CBS (likely switch back to Golf Channel if play runs way past 6:30 p.m. ET)

10 a.m. to conclusion (darkness is 8:40 p.m. ET) — PGA TOUR LIVE featured holes stream and featured groups stream

PGA Tour LIVE tentative schedule

1 to 2:30 p.m. ET — Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream

2:30 to 6:30 p.m. ET — PGATour.com/CBS simulcast stream

1 p.m. ET to conclusion — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)