ESPN has reached an agreement to air Thursday and Friday coverage of the Farmers Insurance Open as Brooks Koepka makes his much-anticipated return to the tour.
While ESPN’s subscription streaming service is the home of PGA Tour Live, the network has not aired a regular tour event on television in 20 years – ESPN and ABC dropped their coverage of the tour after 2006 and never returned.
The network did continue broadcasting the US and British Opens for a decade, however the last broadcast they produced was 11 years ago at the 2015 Open Championship. That said, in recent years they have served as an outlet for CBS-produced early-round coverage of the Masters and PGA Championship, in addition to hosting PGA Tour Live.
For the Farmers, ESPN’s 3 hours (12-3pm eastern) will precede Golf Channel’s 3 hours (3-6pm eastern), doubling the amount of air time the tournament receives on TV.
ESPN’s coverage will be produced by PGA Tour Productions, who normally produces the PGA Tour Live content for their streaming service.
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TLDR:
Farmers Open television coverage has been expanded to six hours on Thu./Fri. (ESPN 12-3pm, Golf Channel 3-6pm)
Streaming options are the same as usual.
No change to weekend coverage.
by ContinuousFuture
