Tiger Woods and son Charlie will return to action this week. The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, the venue of the PNC Championship, has become a regular stop for Team Woods. There were doubts whether the 15-time major champion would tee off this year, given his exclusion from the Hero World Challenge because of his sixth back surgery. But Woods confirmed he would indeed make a return. Here is how you can catch all the action live.
Golf Channel will start the early broadcast on Friday. From noon to 2.30 PM EDT, PNC Championship Pro-Am will be live on Golf Channel. Per schedules, Tiger Woods and Charlie Woods will tee off in one of the two pro ams as the first-round tees off on Saturday. Golf Channel will start the broadcast at 1 PM. After 90 minutes, the rest of the first round will steam, live on Peacock and NBC Sports App. From 4 PM-6 PM, the actions will be taped on NBC, Peacock, and NBC App.
The PNC Championship is a 36-hole tournament. The final round will be on air from 11.30 AM on Golf Channel and NBC Sports App on Sunday. However, the Golf Channel will stop the broadcast after an hour. From 12.30 PM to 1.30 PM, the PNC Championship will only be live on the Peacock/NBC Sports App. Once again, it will be back on TV from 1.30 PM to 4.30 PM via NBC. Here is the full schedule of the broadcast.
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Date | Time (ET) | Network |
Dec. 20 | 14:30 | Golf Channel/NBC Sports App |
Dec. 21 | 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-18:00 | Golf Channel/NBC Sports App Peacock/NBC Sports App NBC/Peacock/NBC Sports App |
Dec. 22 | 11:30-12:30 12:30-13:30 13:30-16:30 | Golf Channel/NBC Sports App Peacock/NBC Sports App NBC/Peacock/NBC Sports App |
On the other side of the Atlantic Sky Sports will take up the broadcasting mantle. This will be Team Woods’s fifth such appearance in the family tournament. Here is how they have performed before.
Team Woods at the PNC Championship – a re-look
Tiger Woods dubbed this family outing, as the ‘fifth major’ of his schedule. It has become increasingly rare to spot the former world no.1 on the greens. After failing to keep his a-tournament-a-month promise, the 48-year-old accepted that his body wasn’t PGA Tour ready yet. In this circumstance, the PNC Championship has become a welcome break for him, along with his countless fans.
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🚨⛳️🐅 PNC WEEK — Tiger Woods returns to action this week. He and son Charlie are slated to play 1 of the 2 pro ams and will tee off Friday at 9:40 AM off #1 tee. Tournament rounds are Saturday and Sunday. pic.twitter.com/KDJQIsZtxt
— TWLEGION (@TWlegion) December 15, 2024
Last year, team Woods settled for a T5. But the key highlight was Charlie Woods’s monster drive and nifty chip-ins. A year later, senior Woods will once again bank on his teenage son’s prowess. For the record, they are yet to sniff victory here. But in 2021, only in their second-ever appearance, the duo rallied to a second spot thanks to a whopping 11 birdies on the final 18 holes.
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Team Woods is generally paired with Justin Thomas and his dad, Mike, at the PNC Championship. However, in their absence, it is reasonable to assume that the duo might be paired with another family friend, Fred Couples. The PNC Championship will start on December 21. The tee times are yet to be released.
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