How to Watch Puerto Rico Open 2024: TV Schedule, Live Coverage, and More

While the top 40 golfers in the world will play at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, another bunch of 132 golfers will be teeing up in Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Open will be held at the Grand Reserve Country Club for the 16th edition and will give up-and-coming players a chance to earn victory on the PGA Tour.

The event will start on Thursday, March 7, and after a 36-hole cut on Friday, the field of top 65 and ties will compete in the final two rounds for the Puerto Rico Open trophy, which ends on March 10th. It will surely be an action-packed weekend for golf fans, so without missing a beat, clear your schedule as per the broadcast timings given below.

TV and streaming schedule for Puerto Rico Open 

Among the stars at the Rio Grande are defending champion Nico Echavarria, Ryder Cupper Robert MacIntyre, PGA Tour winner Daniel Berger, and 3-time DP World Tour winner Rasmus Hojgaard among many others. As an additional event on the PGA Tour, the PR Open has always been played simultaneously with the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

This gives the unrecognized talent on the Tour a chance to showcase what they have and take the world’s attention. Moreover, because much emphasis has been given to the signature event, the usual broadcast schedule for a PGA Tour event cannot be followed for the Puerto Rico Open. As a result, NBC will not be casting the last two rounds as it always does for Tour events.

However, all four rounds will be covered by the Golf Channel. For Thursday and Friday, the broadcast on Golf Channel will start from 10:00 a.m. and conclude at 1:00 p.m. The Saturday and Sunday rounds will start at 12:30 p.m. on Golf Channel and end at 2:30 p.m. All four rounds will be streamed on Peacock simultaneously (all times ET).

The exclusive coverage of PGA Tour events can also be streamed via ESPN+. The players are set and beaming for the Puerto Rico Open as the event has improved by the Tour and the prize money for it has been increased by $200,000 from the 2023 edition.

What’s at stake at the Puerto Rico Open? 

Comparatively, the Puerto Rico Open does not boast the same $20 million prize purse as the Arnold Palmer Invitational, nor does it have 700 FedExCup points for the winner. But the prize money from $3.8 million last year has been changed to $4 million in the 2024 season. Out of this prize pool, the winner will get $720,000, which has increased from last year’s $680,000.

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Moreover, the winner will also earn 300 FedExCup points with a two-year exemption from the PGA Tour and a chance to qualify for next year’s elevated events. The Official World Golf Rankings will give 21.85217, improving the players’s rank before the Masters in April, which may allow them to qualify for the men’s first major.

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