Tiger Woods live stream 2018: How to watch him play at Genesis Open Round 2

Tiger Woods is here to get you to happy hour. It’s a Friday in mid-February, the worst, dullest stretch of the year if you live in a particularly frigid place. Los Angeles is not one of those places, and Tiger will be in action for the second round of the Genesis Open at Riviera.

Woods tees off at 3:02 p.m. ET, or just after noon local at Riv. If you’re stuck in some miserable cubicle or just looking for a way to run the clock out on a work week, he’s here for you. So is PGA Tour Live and Golf Channel, which will broadcast and stream Tiger’s second round.

That first hour will fall on PGA Tour Live, which will stream his first few holes before Golf Channel takes over to bring it home. He should finish around 7:30 p.m. ET, well after you’ve hopefully ejected on work for the week. But those first two hours or so, just lock into the streams as Tiger tries to make his second cut in as many tries this year.

Tiger is 1-over par and inside the cut line after 18 holes. It’s a fine position, even after another wild day with the driver. It wasn’t as bad as Torrey Pines, but the big misses with the driver cost him several strokes on Thursday and put him over par. If he can correct one or two of those big misses, then it’s likely he makes the cut and will be around for 36 more holes this weekend. He’s in fine shape to start, but it can always go sideways in a hurry if he simply cannot get off the tee.

PGA Tour Live, the OTT service from the tour, should pick up his round from the iconic first tee at Riv. Then Golf Channel will kick in at 4 p.m. ET for the rest of his round and have a simulcast stream up and running of that TV coverage. The Tour and Golf Channel got together here to make sure the sensible thing was done so the people could get their Tiger coverage on Friday.

Typically, the Golf Channel coverage window would end at 6 or 7 p.m. ET. It ended at 6 p.m. ET on Thursday. But that would have cut off in the middle of Tiger’s second round, one that could be a dramatic push-and-pull over the cut line. So the TV window was bumped to 4 to 8 p.m. ET on Friday.

The schedule change makes sense and will quell the angry Twitter masses, at least for one day. Here’s the Genesis Open second round streaming and media schedule:

4 to 8 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

9:30 a.m. ET -- PGA Tour Live starts with coverage from the range and opening holes

Featured Groups (PGA Tour Live subscription required)

4 to 8 p.m. ET -- PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage (No subscription required)

4 to 8 p.m. ET — Golf Channel simulcast stream

2 to 8 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Radio on SiriusXM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)