How to Follow the PGA Championship Online This Week

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August 13, 2015

Golf’s final men’s major championship of the year kicks off today in my home state of Wisconsin at Whistling Straits Golf Course. The main headline revolves around two young starts, Rory McIlroy and Jordan Speith, and their reluctant rivalry coming in to the tail end of the PGA season. Whether you are a fan of those two, other competitors in the field, or just like to follow along with the event, you have multiple options for staying in the know during the tournament.

Watching

If you plan on being a couch potato all weekend, then a mixture of the TNT network and CBS will have you covered. You can check the tournament’s main page for broadcasting schedules. If you have a cool boss or a strategically-placed cubicle, you can also use PGA.com to stream video on Friday. You will be able to watch the traditional broadcast (when available), or follow a featured group around the course.

The PGA is also offering dedicated apps for both Android and iOS. The apps will allow you watch much of the same offerings as the web site, though it does appear that the app will make you register with an email address. At the time of this writing, I couldn’t find out if cable/satellite credentials are necessary once CBS takes over coverage for the weekend.

The PGA Championship app for iOS.
The PGA Championship app for iOS.

Other Ways to Follow Along

If you’ll be out and about and unable to glue yourself to a screen, you will have other options. The aforementioned apps also have leaderboard functionality baked in, and also allow you to select favorite players to follow. You can set up alerts for these players, or for tournament news in general. A helpful buzz might be more convenient than having to pull out your phone every five minutes. The app also cultivates tweets for you, if you wish, so you can see what journalists and other big names in golf are saying about the course and players’ performances.

If you don’t feel like adding yet another app to your growing stable, any sports news app that you currently have should suffice in keeping you up to date. I am a big fan of the CBS Sports app in general, and as that network is covering the tournament, you can bet they’ll be on the ball with updates. The CBS app also provides cultivated tweets from people of import in golf.

The PGA section of the CBS Sports app on Android.
The PGA section of the CBS Sports app on Android.

A difficult course coupled with some challenging weather should make for some interesting golf. Whether one of the household names or a more unknown pro makes a run at the Wanamaker Trophy remains to be seen, but armed with the proper tech, you should have no problem following along.

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David G. Temple is the Managing Editor of TechGraphs and a contributor to FanGraphs, NotGraphs and The Hardball Times. He hosts the award-eligible podcast Stealing Home. Dayn Perry once called him a "Bible Made of Lasers." Follow him on Twitter @davidgtemple.

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