How to watch the 2018 Pebble Beach Pro Am online, TV schedule and more

Pebble Beach may not be the most famous course in America, but it’s certainly in the top two or three. And it’s the only one you, yes you the weekend hacker, can actually access (if you’re willing to spend a month’s rent on lodging and a tee time). There are some well-founded critiques of how the place has been maintained over the years, and architecture nerds will continually point out how much better it could be with a restoration to its original layout and conditioning. But the point remains -- it’s still one of America’s best and on a plot of land many consider to be the most beautiful in the world (I won’t bore you with the Robert Louis Stevenson quote again).

So Pebble is not without its flaws. But come June or July, when we’re at our fourth straight TPC course that abuts a suburban office park, you’ll wish you had something like the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. The historic West Coast stop is also prime with a nice Sunday leaderboard for the final round.

Dustin Johnson enters Sunday with a share of the lead. The world No. 1 has won this event twice, albeit eight years ago. But Pebble is the kind of place he feasts (he feasts everywhere these days), and he’s obviously in form with a 2018 win already on the board. DJ will be without his pro-am partner, his father-in-lawish (is that the official title when you’re still engaged?), Wayne Gretzky. The Great One withdrew on Sunday morning with back trouble. The duo was in the top 10 of the ProAm competition, but now it will be just DJ gunning for the PGA Tour pro side of things on Sunday.

Sitting on a share of the lead is The Wizard, Ted Potter Jr. As a journeyman pro who only the diehards recognize, he will be a heavy underdog to DJ. But he’s been in form and if you’re playing at this level, anyone can beat anyone on a given day. Chasing Potter and DJ is some serious heat, including Jason Day, Jon Rahm, Patrick Rodgers, and Steve Stricker. Like DJ, Day could also go two-for-two in his first two starts on the 2018 PGA Tour schedule.

Golf Channel and CBS will have the coverage on Sunday. The coverage gap will be back and there will be more angry tweets. The gap is especially tough to take at Pebble, because it’s traditionally come right when the leaders hit holes 6 through 8, the sexiest and most interesting stretch on the course. The 7th may be the most iconic par-3 in the world.

The good news is that gap should only last 15 minutes this Sunday. They have tried to shorten it where possible this season, going from 30 to 15 minutes. The time is allegedly used to switch out graphics and talent from GC to CBS. Another welcome change is a new policy where coverage will kick back to Golf Channel if college basketball runs long on CBS. The hoops went long both Saturday and Sunday last week at the Phoenix Open, going 45 minutes into the golf coverage on Saturday and inciting golf Twitter into madness. If you shorten the coverage gap to 15 minutes, but basketball is running 15-30 minutes over, you’re not actually getting anywhere. That anger last Saturday provoked this policy change for Sunday in Phoenix, and we saw it again on Saturday at Pebble.

So if the Michigan-Wisconsin game runs long on CBS, switch back to Golf Channel because they should be going live right at 3 p.m. ET with the CBS production there. We’ll then kick back to CBS when the basketball game ends. You can also stream on PGA Tour Live if you want to juggle devices.

Here’s your media schedule for Sunday at Pebble Beach:

1 to 2:45 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

3 to 6:30 p.m. ET — CBS

11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Live featured groups and holes coverage

1 to 2:45 p.m. ET — Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream

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

1 to 6:30 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)