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Farmers Insurance Open 2018: Time, TV schedule for Tiger Woods on Sunday

Tiger’s back in Sunday red and black. Here’s how to watch the final round from Torrey Pines.

Jan 28, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

Tiger will have his every shot tracked again on Sunday at Torrey Pines.

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For the first time since early September, we have a Sunday without NFL football ... real NFL football, the Pro Bowl doesn’t count, and if you think it does, you’re a sick degenerate. The Australian Open will be over, most likely, before it’s even light out in the eastern United States. There’s a few college basketball games and some NBA. But the point is, it’s a light Sunday afternoon in the sportsball world.

Thankfully, we have the cat in red and black back playing the final round of an official PGA Tour event. It’s been almost 900 days since Tiger Woods played the Sunday round of a PGA Tour event, but he’ll end that drought at the 2018 Farmers Insurance Open. Tiger made a return at Torrey Pines this week and told us all about how he was now pain-free thanks to the spinal fusion surgery he underwent last April. It was different from the prior microdiscectomy procedures that made prior comeback attempts so short-lived and depressing.

So, if nothing else, we had that objective fact to tell us this comeback was different. The question with Tiger is always how long he’ll stay healthy or if anything is sustainable. But so far, so good. He’s been tested in some of the thickest and highest rough on the PGA Tour at this Torrey Pines South Course. And he’s been in it often, missing fairway after fairway and having to test the spine with plenty of mighty hacks from the thick stuff. The health has held up and the game has been an improvement over some of the prior comeback attempts. It’s not been especially pretty but making the cut and moving up the leaderboard on Saturday are significant accomplishments given the realm of expectations we now operate in with Tiger.

Sunday he should have the stage with football absent and the Aussie Open well over. Tiger tees off at 11:15 a.m. ET on the No. 10 tee. That’s before Golf Channel is set to come on the air with their early-round coverage. Golf Channel will have a pregame show going live at Noon and those always tend to feature live look-ins of Tiger’s every shot. But prior to that, we may need to rely purely on social media reports and videos from the PGA Tour to follow his first few holes. He should finish up around 3:30 or 4 p.m. ET on CBS, which is back on the golf beat following the AFC Championship game.

The CBS coverage was a pretty dramatic improvement on Saturday. They have taken a lot of crap on Twitter in recent years, and often rightly so. But they were committed to showing a ton of golf shots on Saturday and eliminating some more of the fluff they have become known for. And they now have tracer technology on every tee and on a lot of a fairway shots. It’s a commendable improvement and here’s hoping, like Tiger’s health, it is sustained over the course of the season.

Here’s your full media schedule for Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open: