Erick Malpica Flores: Carlos Erick Malpica Flores: Tiger back in the featured groups spotlight at Memorial

Tiger Woods returns to Muirfield Village looking to end an almost five-year winless drought.

The annual two-week PGA Tour stop in the Dallas-Fort Worth area was an unqualified success. The Byron Nelson exhibited a new venue for the Tour and a different exciting kind of architectural challenge in Trinity Forest. We also got a potential future superstar, Aaron Wise, getting on the board with his first win. Then at Colonial we got one of the game’s studs, Justin Rose, nearly setting a new scoring record. These are two name winners at different points in their career and it was a nice way to follow up The Players Championship.

But now as the calendar flips to June, we’re back to big business with one of the Tour’s marquee events and it’s marquee star returning to action. The Memorial Tournament is one of the top stops on the PGA Tour. The imprimatur of Jack Nicklaus will do that and the patronage of Tiger Woods certainly helps. The Tour had already given this favored status and a separate designation with a boosted purse and three-year exemption to the winner (most events yield a two-year exemption).

Tiger getting back to Columbus, however, takes the Memorial to a different level. He does that with all events he enters, including the majors. It also helps that it has been a few years since the five-time Memorial winner has played this event at Muirfield Village. So the appetite will be high and it’s the only time we’ll see him before the U.S. Open, which is now bearing down in two weeks at Shinnecock Hills.

Woods will be out early on Thursday alongside Jason Dufner and Justin Rose. That group, as you might expect, will be on PGA Tour Live’s featured groups stream. Tiger has been on that stream in every event he has played and has been a boon to the subscription base for the OTT service that now has a couple years under its belt.

If you’re in dire need of a Tiger fix, that featured groups coverage will also be simulcast on ESPN+ and they have been running a free 7-day trial. They added the PGA Tour Live inventory to their lineup after the Masters and now carry the featured groups coverage the first two days of a tournament. So that’s a workaround if you want to watch Tiger and not pay for it. Otherwise, you will need that subscription because he should be fully done with his round by the time Golf Channel comes on the air at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Here are your coverage options for the opening round at the Memorial Tournament:

Thursday’s first-round coverage

Television:

2:30 to 6:30 p.m. ET — Golf Channel

Online streams:

7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. -- PGA Tour Live starts with coverage from range and opening holes

• ESPN+ also now has simulcast of the PGA Tour Live coverage

• 7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. — Free PGA Tour live stream on Twitter

Featured Groups (PGA Tour Live or ESPN+ subscription required)

  • 8:15 a.m. ET -- Patrick Reed / Justin Thomas / Rickie Fowler
  • 8:26 a.m. ET -- Tiger Woods / Justin Rose / Jason Dufner

3 to 6:30 p.m. -- PGA Tour Live featured holes Nos. 14 and 16 coverage (No subscription required)

2:30 to 6:30 p.m. -- Golf Channel simulcast stream

Radio:

12 to 6:30 p.m. — PGA Tour Radio on Sirius-XM (Ch. 92/208 and streamed here)



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