Northern Trust Open 2017 live stream: Tee times, TV schedule, and how to watch Sunday online

The major championship season has come and gone in golf but that doesn’t mean our Sundays are now empty. The FedExCup Playoffs certainly do not carry the weight of a major, but they’ve slotted in nicely during the late season to provide some meaningful golf that constantly draws the biggest names in the game.

The Northern Trust is the first leg of the four-stop postseason and Sunday’s final round is an instant example of how the playoffs deliver some of the top stars playing compelling golf late in the year. Jordan Spieth holds a three-shot lead with 18 holes to play, but the crowd chasing him includes world No. 1 Dustin Johnson. A Spieth-DJ final pairing, playing for big money and playoff points, is exactly what the PGA Tour had in mind when it started this postseason experiment a decade ago.

Spieth would bump Hideki Matsuyama from the top spot of the FedExCup standings here in week one of the postseason. It would also put him in a prime position to win his second FEC title in three years, adding yet another massive $10 million bonus payout to his already outrageously lucrative and young career. The points reset and sometimes fickle machinations of the postseason wouldn’t exactly put him in a commanding position, but he’d go to the season finale in Atlanta “controlling his own destiny” — meaning a win there would automatically mean he wins the entire Playoffs.

For the CBS haters, and there’s a strong vocal group of them on Twitter at least, this could be considered a day of rejoicing. It’s the network’s final broadcast for about five months, as they fold up shop to focus on football. They usually return a stop or two into the West Coast swing in late January or early February, either at the Phoenix Open or Torrey Pines. While CBS has the highest-rated event in the game, August, as a whole, is probably their strongest month. It includes a prestigious WGC event, the season’s final major, and a Playoffs event in the four-week stretch.

That final pairing of Spieth and DJ tee off just before 2 p.m. local at Glen Oaks. The pace all week has been steady and brisk. Expect a sub four-hour round unless there’s some sort of mess to disrupt things. So Jim Nantz and friends should sign off with their final call of the year just before 6 p.m. ET. Here’s your media schedule for the final round at the Northern Trust:

Noon to 1:30 p.m. — Golf Channel

2 to 6 p.m. — CBS

8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. — PGA Tour Live featured groups stream

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

1:30 to 6 p.m. — PGATour.com/CBS simulcast stream

1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208 and streamed here)

Here’s your full tee sheet for Sunday’s final round on Long Island: