Tiger Woods live stream 2018: How to watch him play at the Farmers Insurance Open Round 2

No one wants to work on a Friday afternoon. You just want to get to the weekend, try and run out the clock and eject for a couple of days.

Well Tiger Woods is here to help you in that pursuit of unproductivity. Woods will play his second PGA Tour round in a year on Friday afternoon at Torrey Pines, hoping to get into red numbers and make the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open.

We’ve been told by everyone — people who might know a little something, people who are idiots and know nothing — that this comeback has looked different. The different surgery, a spinal fusion, has eliminated the pain that cut down prior comeback attempts. His swing is faster, the ball is going farther, and the outlook is more promising than at this event last year.

This is what we’re told, and you’re allowed to be a little skeptical of that given everything we’ve been told before with prior comebacks that imploded in quick and fantastic fashion. But it looked different again on Friday.

Tiger corroborated some of that hype we’ve been hearing, with those speeds up again. It was a steady, even boring round of 72. There were some ugly shots. His irons were particularly rusty and bad on his opening nine. There were some great shots — he missed an ace by just inches on his third-to-last hole of the day. And there was no sign of pain — no wincing or hobbling or ginger movements that have dominated televised Tiger rounds in recent years.

Tiger will tee off for the second round at 12:30 p.m. ET on the North Course. That’s a good two-and-a-half hours before Golf Channel is set to come on air with its TV broadcast. There will be a 2:30 pregame show on GC with highlights and live look-ins of Tiger’s ongoing round, but that’s still a full two hours after his tee time. What to do?

PGA Tour Live is here for you. But it will cost you if you don’t have a subscription. PGA Tour Live is the tour’s over-the-top streaming service, which it started a few years ago and is now a well-oiled machine running every Thursday and Friday morning on Tour.

The streaming quality is awesome, using MLBAM’s technology. But it’s behind that paywall, a frustrating impediment if you’re a casual fan who may not need this coverage when Tiger isn’t playing. It’s not clear how many subs it’s piled up over the last couple of years, but being the exclusive spot for a Tiger round after a year off due to injury seems like a persuasive way to get a lot of people to try and at least sign up for some sort of partial subscription.

PGA Tour Live will have Tiger’s every shot from the first tee until Golf Channel coverage kicks in at 3 p.m. Tiger should finish around 5 p.m. ET, so GC still gets to board that gravy train for a nice stretch. Here are your media options for Friday’s second round at the Farmers Insurance Open (all times ET):

3 to 7 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

11:45 a.m. ET -- PGA Tour Live starts with coverage from range and opening holes

Featured Groups (PGA Tour Live subscription required)

3 to 7 p.m. ET -- PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage (No subscription required)

3 to 7 p.m. ET — Golf Channel simulcast stream

1 to 7 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)