{"id":322541,"date":"2025-12-18T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322541\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T09:44:08","slug":"tv-coverage-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/322541\/","title":{"rendered":"TV coverage, how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">The two biggest stars in pro golf, <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/scottie-scheffler-wins-2025-player-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/rory-mcilroy-controversial-past-popularity-contest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rory McIlroy<\/a>, are facing off in the inaugural Optum Golf Channel Games on Wednesday, December 17, in Florida. Here\u2019s everything you need to know to watch the event, including full Optum Golf Channel Games TV coverage, streaming details, event format and more.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Optum Golf Channel Games<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/2025-pnc-championship-tv-schedule-tee-times-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PNC Championship<\/a>, which teams golf legends with family members, gets underway this weekend. But the PNC isn\u2019t the only offseason event on the calendar this week. On Wednesday, golf fans will get to witness the first-ever Optum Golf Channel Games.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and World No. 2 Rory McIlroy will captain two four-man teams through a variety of skills competitions. Those matches include a timed drive competition, a timed short game competiton, a 14-club challenge, a team relay and, finally, a one-on-one skills match between Scheffler and McIlroy.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/scottie-scheffler-wins-2025-player-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                <img class=\"lazy inner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/scottie-scheffler-smiles.jpg\" alt=\"Scottie Scheffler pictured at the 2025 Hero World Challenge.\"   style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/scottie-scheffler-smiles.jpg?width=30);\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/scottie-scheffler-wins-2025-player-year\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler\u2019s latest accolade leaves just 1 lingering question<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        By:<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/writers\/josh-berhow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                Josh Berhow            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>McIlroy\u2019s team will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/shane-lowry-jabs-us-captain-ryder-cup-photo-drop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Lowry<\/a>, Luke Donald and Haotong Li. Joining Scheffler\u2019s team will be <a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/news\/why-keegan-bradley-scared-trash-talk-skins-game\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keegan Bradley<\/a>, Sam Burns and Luke Clanton.<\/p>\n<p>The competition will be played at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., and the action gets started Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Golf Channel and USA will air TV coverage of the 2025 Optum Golf Channel Games. The NBC Sports App will carry additional streaming coverage.<\/p>\n<p>You can find complete information about streaming or watching the event on TV below.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch on TV<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfchannel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Golf Channel<\/a> and USA will provide TV coverage of the 2025 Optum Golf Channel Games, with pre-match coverage kicking off at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday night, followed by the competition at 7:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch online, streaming<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the 2025 Optum Golf Channel Games online via the NBC Sports App.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two biggest stars in pro golf, Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, are facing off in the inaugural&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-322541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}