It appears Sunday will be the final day for the PGA Tour event known as The National in the DC area. It’s been an 11-year run since Tiger Woods and his foundation organized and launched this event, maintaining they wanted to keep a Tour stop in the DC area. But with no title sponsor for next year — Quicken Loans is backing a new event in their hometown of Detroit — and the 2019 schedule due out any day, it’s almost certain that The National will get axed.
Quicken Loans National 2018: Time, TV schedule for Tiger Woods and the field for Sunday
Tiger Woods is in contention, albeit as a longshot, in what is likely the final round of the final edition of his event in DC.
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Tiger has a chance to take his DC event out with a bang, but he’s going to have to get to work right away on Sunday. Woods is six shots off the 54-hole pace. Closing the gap is a longshot, but we’ve seen him put together birdie runs on this course a couple times already this week. It’s possible, just not likely, and he’ll probably need a little help from the guys ahead of him. Francesco Molinari and Abraham Ancer hold the lead at 13-under, while Tiger sits at T10 at 7-under.
Woods will tee off a 1:20 p.m. ET alongside Bronson Burgoon. This is the most exposure and TV time Bronson Burgoon has received in a single round of his young pro career. There will be thousands following the group on what is a tough course to walk. The crowds get confined to really going from one hole to the next in a station-to-station layout, as opposed to an open plot that allows jumping around the course. So everyone has really concentrated around Tiger’s group, and Mr. Burgoon will have to deal with that circus all day long.
Tiger’s late tee time does mean his entire final round will fall within the TV coverage window. Golf Channel will be live on the air at 1 p.m. ET before kicking it over to CBS for their usual coverage to wrap things up around 6 p.m. ET. Jim Nantz is back calling this event after it got the Macatee treatment. Ian Baker-Finch is in the lead analyst chair and Nick Faldo gets a break and ramps up for work across the pond with Golf Channel.
Here are your media options for Sunday’s final round at Quicken Loans National:
Sunday’s final round coverage
Television:
1 to 2:45 p.m. ET — Golf Channel
3 to 6 p.m. ET — CBS
Online streams:
8 a.m. to 1 p.m. — “Featured Groups” coverage on Facebook Watch
1 to 6 p.m. — PGA Tour Live featured holes coverage -- Nos. 1, 14 & 17 (No subscription required)
1 to 2:45 p.m. ET — Golf Channel LiveExtra simulcast stream
3 to 6 p.m. ET — PGATour.com/CBS simulcast stream
Radio:
Noon to 7 p.m. ET — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)
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