There are just 18 holes left in the Arnold Palmer Invitational, one of the marquee early-season events on the PGA Tour and a key pre-Masters Florida swing stop. The week at Bay Hill is always special, but this 2017 edition has taken on a whole new meaning. It’s the first ever without Mr. Palmer, the golf icon who has his signature, logo, name, and imprimatur on everything at this event. The first edition held without Mr. Palmer has been first-class: a week-long tribute to the man who brought professional golf to the masses in the United States.
Arnold Palmer Invitational 2017 live stream: Tee times, TV schedule, and how to watch Sunday online
The final round at Bay Hill will be an emotional one.
The final 18 holes won’t be the same without Mr. Palmer in his cart greeting the players, watching them from his different perches around the course, and then handing the trophy to the winner on the 18th green.
One of the great honors of winning this tournament was meeting Arnie greenside as you walked off with the win, getting the trophy, and then going for a drink with the legend in the Bay Hill clubhouse. Jason Day, who won last year, said he was “hammered” after having a drink with Mr. Palmer.
We won’t get some of those customs and scenes this Sunday, but it will still be a special honor for the winner in this first API without the namesake presiding over the event.
Golf Channel and NBC will split the duties at Bay Hill on Sunday. NBC has been the traditional coverage partner for the PGA Tour during this March Madness stretch when CBS is occupied with college hoops. It gets some prime events on the Florida swing, and that includes the stop at Bay Hill. It’s fitting, too, as Palmer founded Golf Channel, which falls under the Comcast umbrella with NBC. The Golf Channel headquarters are just down the road from Bay Hill, and the network and Palmer shared a close relationship. So this week, so many people who work at a place that he helped create are paying homage.
The coverage will start at 12:30 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, with the leaders still just on the range and not close to teeing off yet. We get almost six hours of coverage on Sunday, which is longer than most final rounds on the PGA Tour. But this is as important as any for the broadcast partners Golf Channel and NBC. Here’s your media schedule for Sunday’s final round (all times ET):
Sunday’s final-round coverage
Television:
12:30 to 2:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel
2:30 to 6 p.m. -- NBC
Online streams:
12:30 to 6 p.m. -- Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. -- PGA Tour Live featured holes stream (No subscription required)
Radio:
1 to 6 p.m. -- PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)
The Arnold Palmer Invitational is a smaller field to begin with on Thursday. Just 120 players get a spot at Bay Hill, and getting through 72 holes on time is rarely a problem. The weather has not been nice, with a cold snap hitting central Florida this week, but nothing too severe to delay play at all.
The switch to daylight savings also ensures this final Florida swing stop won’t have any issues finishing on time. The final round will feature twosomes all rolling off No. 1 tee in a wave from about 8 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. That should have the final two finishing up on the 18th green just before 6 p.m. in Orlando and on NBC.
Here’s the full tee sheet for Sunday’s final round at Bay Hill (all times ET):
- 8:15 a.m.: Bubba Watson, Blayne Barber
- 8:24 a.m.: Jim Herman, Martin Laird
- 8:33 a.m.: Kevin Chappell, Kevin Streelman
- 8:42 a.m.: Boo Weekley, C.T. Pan
- 8:51 a.m.: J.J. Spaun, Ryan Ruffels
- 9:00 a.m.: Troy Merritt, Ben Martin
- 9:09 a.m.: Danny Lee, Charles Howell III
- 9:18 a.m.: Ben An, Zach Johnson
- 9:27 a.m.: David Hearn, Wesley Bryan
- 9:36 a.m.: James Hahn, Matt Every
- 9:45 a.m.: Jason Kokrak, Tim Herron
- 9:54 a.m.: Fabian Gomez, John Huh
- 10:03 a.m.: Jeunghun Wang, Steve Wheatcroft
- 10:12 a.m.: Jamie Lovemark, Tony Finau
- 10:21 a.m.: Si Woo Kim, Jason Day
- 10:30 a.m.: Ian Poulter, Derek Fathauer
- 10:39 a.m.: Stewart Cink, David Lingmerth
- 10:48 a.m.: Brian Harman, Ryan Moore
- 10:57 a.m.: Ollie Schniederjans, Vaughn Taylor
- 11:06 a.m.: Alex Noren, Charl Schwartzel
- 11:15 a.m.: Hideki Matsuyama, Luke List
- 11:25 a.m.: Brandt Snedeker, Louis Oosthuizen
- 11:35 a.m.: Tommy Fleetwood, Graeme McDowell
- 11:45 a.m.: Aaron Baddeley, Brandon Hagy
- 11:55 a.m.: Emiliano Grillo, Hudson Swafford
- 12:05 p.m.: Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley
- 12:15 p.m.: Pat Perez, Michael Kim
- 12:25 p.m.: Cameron Smith, Francesco Molinari
- 12:35 p.m.: Billy Horschel, Martin Kaymer
- 12:45 p.m.: Paul Casey, Harold Varner III
- 12:55 p.m.: Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose
- 1:05 p.m.: Kyle Stanley, Greg Chalmers
- 1:15 p.m.: Lucas Glover, Rory McIlroy
- 1:25 p.m.: Matt Fitzpatrick, Adam Hadwin
- 1:35 p.m.: Tyrrell Hatton, Marc Leishman
- 1:45 p.m.: Kevin Kisner, Charley Hoffman
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