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Tiger Woods live stream 2018: How to watch Round 1 at The National online

Tiger is back in D.C. and, dammit, he’s going to win. Here’s how to watch his opening round.

Jun 28, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

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It should be another fantastic afternoon at the World Cup and you should definitely watch that. But I’d lobby for adding a third screen because Tiger Woods is going to end his five-year winless drought this week and it starts on Thursday afternoon.

Woods is back at the Quicken Loans National for the first time in three years. This is his own party, founded by Tiger and his group in 2007 to keep a PGA Tour event in the D.C. area and benefiting his own TW Foundation. The event has had some truly great moments over the years at great (relative to the Tour’s schedule) golf courses. But Tiger’s “National” is probably coming to an end after this year. Quicken is putting their money behind a Detroit event, close to where that company is based. The National has no title sponsor for next year and the schedule is coming soon and it’s likely it will not be included.

But that doesn’t mean it can’t go out with a bang and that bang is going to be Tiger winning for the first time since August 2013. I don’t care that he appears to be searching for a competent putting stroke and a club with which to make that stroke. The field is thin. I watched him stuff shot after shot close on Wednesday. And I think he is going to win. I will hear no arguments to the contrary.

Woods tees off at 1:20 p.m. ET alongside Marc Leishman and Bill Haas. The start of his first round will not be on TV, as Golf Channel comes on the air at 3 p.m. ET. PGA Tour Live, however, should stream his every shot from the first tee until that TV window begins. That requires a subscription, however, and if you don’t have that, there is a workaround. ESPN+ added the PGA Tour Live inventory to their new service back in April. They are still offering a free seven-day trial so you could go that route to watch Tiger’s first six holes or so on Thursday, and then use it Friday, when his full round will be played outside the TV window. Just a thought. I’m here to help.

Here are your streaming and media options for the day at the Quicken Loans National: