It’s hard to see any of the four FedExCup Playoffs events matching the finish we got at the opener last week, but we’re set up again with a loaded leaderboard for the final round of the Dell Technologies Championship.
Dell Technologies Championship 2017 live stream: Tee times, TV schedule, and how to watch Round 4 online
We’ve got a loaded leaderboard and NBC back in control for the only scheduled Monday finish of the year on the PGA Tour.
The annual stop in Boston is the only scheduled Monday finish of the year on the PGA Tour, wrapping around from Friday to Monday over the Labor Day weekend. And it’s delivered plenty of superstar winners and compelling finishes as the holiday weekend winds down and the competition from other sports fades late on Monday afternoon.
We don’t have the juicy final pairing of Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth duking it out like last week at The Northern Trust, but the potential for such superstar jostling at the top of the leaderboard is there in Boston. Justin Thomas, the favorite for Player of the Year, shares the lead at 12-under with Marc Leishman.
Within the top 10 and within striking distance of that leading number are Spieth, DJ, Phil Mickelson, and Jon Rahm. And we have Rickie Fowler just outside that number at T11 and five shots back with 18 to play. This is a course that can yield some low numbers and big leaderboard jumps, so all those big guns are still in it.
Superstars! A crowded leaderboard! A major market! Millennials! This is the kind of brew that the PGA Tour wants for its postseason and maybe with a Monday finish, it might get some eyeballs on it before football swallows the last two events of the FedExCup whole later this month.
The Playoffs have now also transitioned to Golf Channel and NBC full time for the last three legs, which is met with wide-ranging applause in the grumpy corner of the universe that is Golf Twitter. It means CBS is done for the year, and CBS, well, it’s become a punching bag for that grumpiness.
With NBC now on the controls, we don’t get that annoying 30-minute blackout period when we switch over from Golf Channel to CBS, and that always seems to come as the leaders are starting and making early moves in their final rounds. NBC is a sister-network of Golf Channel, so we jump right into it without delay. And, as you’d know if you were a close follower of the golf Twitter curmudgeons, it’s just a better production with often many more actual golf shots shown. Here’s your media schedule for the holiday finish:
Monday’s final round coverage
Television:
11:30 to 1:30 p.m. — Golf Channel
1:30 to 6 p.m. — NBC
Online streams:
8 a.m. — PGA Tour Live featured groups stream
11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. — Golf Channel/NBC Sports LiveExtra simulcast stream
Radio:
1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 93/208 and streamed here)
Tee times
With the spotty weather hopefully behind us, the tee sheet is back to the normal routine. On Sunday, it was bunched together in two-hour blocks off split tees and in groups of three. For the final 18 holes, it’s back to one long list of twosomes all rolling off No. 1 throughout the day. Here’s the full tee sheet for Monday’s final round:
- 7:15 a.m.: Graham DeLaet
- 7:20 a.m.: James Hahn, Rod Pampling
- 7:30 a.m.: Patrick Rodgers, Robert Streb
- 7:40 a.m.: Wesley Bryan, Webb Simpson
- 7:50 a.m.: Harold Varner III, Kevin Tway
- 8 a.m.: Jim Herman, Brendan Steele
- 8:10 a.m.: J.J. Spaun, Tony Finau
- 8:20 a.m.: Bubba Watson, Jhonattan Vegas
- 8:30 a.m.: Sung Kang, Francesco Molinari
- 8:40 a.m.: Charley Hoffman, Russell Knox
- 8:50 a.m.: Daniel Berger, Jamie Lovemark
- 9 a.m.: Sergio Garcia, Luke List
- 9:10 a.m.: Kevin Kisner, Xander Schauffele
- 9:20 a.m.: C.T. Pan, Anirban Lahiri
- 9:30 a.m.: Jason Kokrak, Zach Johnson
- 9:40 a.m.: Chris Kirk, Martin Laird
- 9:50 a.m.: Jason Day, Nick Taylor
- 10 a.m.: Brian Harman, Chez Reavie
- 10:10 a.m.: Charl Schwartzel, Jonas Blixt
- 10:20 a.m.: William McGirt, Keegan Bradley
- 10:30 a.m.: Morgan Hoffmann, Ian Poulter
- 10:40 a.m.: Si Woo Kim, Hideki Matsuyama
- 10:50 a.m.: Louis Oosthuizen, Matt Kuchar
- 11 a.m.: Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Jason Dufner
- 11:10 a.m.: Bud Cauley, Emiliano Grillo
- 11:20 a.m.: Lucas Glover, Kevin Chappell
- 11:30 a.m.: Cody Gribble, Gary Woodland
- 11:40 a.m.: Mackenzie Hughes, Kevin Streelman
- 11:50 a.m.: Scott Brown, Russell Henley
- 12 p.m.: Brooks Koepka, Bill Haas
- 12:10 p.m.: Bryson DeChambeau, Kyle Stanley
- 12:20 p.m.: Hudson Swafford, Kevin Na
- 12:30 p.m.: Branden Grace, Patrick Reed
- 12:40 p.m.: Justin Rose, Stewart Cink
- 12:50 p.m.: Rickie Fowler, Pat Perez
- 1 p.m.: Patrick Cantlay, Phil Mickelson
- 1:10 p.m.: Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm
- 1:20 p.m.: Grayson Murray, Adam Hadwin
- 1:30 p.m.: Paul Casey, Jordan Spieth
- 1:40 p.m.: Justin Thomas, Marc Leishman
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