The 2024 CME Group Tour Championship has a $11 million purse with $4 million going to the winner, doubling the amount the champ got in 2023. It’s the richest prize in women’s professional sports.
As for your viewing options, Golf Channel will have live coverage of the first three rounds of the CME Group Tour Championship as well as pre-game and post-game the entire week. NBC will take over Sunday with three hours of live coverage for the final round. Over the four tournament rounds, there will be live streaming on NBCSports.com, GolfChannel.com, Peacock and ESPN+.
Heads up: Saturday’s third round will not be live on network TV or cable. It will be streamed live and then shown on tape delay on Golf Channel.
You can watch Golf Channel for free on Fubo. You can sign up for ESPN+ and Peacock for the live streaming.
How to watch the 2024 CME Group Tour Championship
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Road to the CME Group Tour Championship, Golf Channel, 4:30-5 p.m. ET
Final round replay, Golf Channel, 8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
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Only one event is left on the PGA Tour in 2024, and this week, the Tour is back in the United States for the first time in nearly a month.
The 2024 RSM Classic gets underway Thursday in Georgia, and it’s the final official event of the PGA Tour’s season.
The RSM Classic is the eighth and final PGA Tour in the fall slate. After this week, the Tour is of until The Sentry in January, though there will be three silly-season events in December, including Tiger Woods’ Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
From TV coverage to field information and prize money, here’s what you need to know about the 2024 RSM Classic.
RSM Classic course information
Sea Island Golf Club’s Seaside Course in St. Simons Island, Georgia, is a par-70 layout measuring 7,005 yards. Tom Fazio was the architect. The tournament will also use the Plantation Course for the first two rounds. The event has been at Sea Island since 2010 when Davis Love III and Zach Johnson created it.
RSM Classic purse, prize money
The purse at the 2024 RSM Classic is $7.6 million with a first-place prize of $1.368 million. Five of the eight fall events have smaller purses from a year ago, including the RSM, which is down $400,000.
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RSM Classic field
There will be 156 golfers in the field when play starts Thursday. The biggest name is Ludvig Aberg, who makes his return to play after knee surgery as defending champion at the RSM.
“It’s not like a full-time gig or anything … It’ll be kind of fun,” Azinger told Golfweek on Monday.
Paul Azinger is returning to the broadcast booth in 2025.
Golfweek has learned that the 64-year-old former 12-time PGA Tour champion and winner of the 1993 PGA Championship will replace Lanny Wadkins, who announced his retirement on Friday, as the lead analyst on Golf Channel’s coverage of PGA Tour Champions for 10-12 tournaments next season as part of a one-year deal.
“It’s not like a full-time gig or anything, which I don’t want, but to be able to go in there and part-time some golf, some really great golf, it’ll be kind of fun,” Azinger told Golfweek in a phone interview on Monday. “I’ll just be as candid as I can and enjoy it.”
Peter Jacobsen and John Cook will split time in the analyst chair when Azinger is off. [Cook will serve as on-site walking reporter when he’s not an analyst.]
“Paul brings a lot of credibility to that seat and has a lot of creative ideas that we think can just add to our overall telecast,” Miller Brady, president of PGA Tour Champions, said. “It’s hard to replace a Hall of Famer like Lanny week in and week out, but, I think Paul will be tremendous for us.”
Azinger was the lead golf analyst for NBC Sports’ coverage of the PGA Tour for five years until the network stunned him by electing not to renew his contract last December.
“I thought I would do at least one more year and then sign a four-year deal. They made the offer, my agent said ‘No, we’ll counteroffer the next day.’ And they said, ‘Sorry, we’re moving on.’ You know, it wasn’t a conversation with me, like, ‘What do you need Zinger? What do we need to do? Here’s our situation. You know, this is why we need you to accept this deal.’ There was no reason, it just was it’s complicated, it’s complicated. I was like, ‘How complicated can it be, bud?’ It’s money,” Azinger told Golfweek in March.
The Peacock still hasn’t hired a replacement for Azinger, instead rotating this season through a cast of veteran players including Kevin Kisner and Luke Donald, Golf Channel commentators Paul McGinley and Brandel Chamblee, who did the U.S. Open, and caddie Jim “Bones” Mackay, who has since rejoined Golf Channel as an on-course commentator.
Sep 24, 2022; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Paul Azinger holds up a fish at the lake near the 14th hole during the foursomes match play of the Presidents Cup golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club. Mandatory Credit: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports
While Azinger will appear on Golf Channel, he isn’t employed by the network but rather by PGA Tour Entertainment, which has final say on talent for PGA Tour Champions coverage. All parties involved said that the relationship has been reconciled despite the messy parting nearly a year ago.
“I hope that that’s water under the bridge and that everyone just moves on. I know Paul wants to move on, and we want to move on,” Brady said.
“Paul has called some of golf’s biggest events and has been a part of the PGA Tour as a player or analyst for more than four decades, and we’re excited to have him bring that experience to the PGA Tour Champions telecasts on Golf Channel,” an NBC Sports spokesperson said.
During his interview with Golfweek in March, Azinger hinted that he’d be interested in calling the 50-and-over tour.
“I’d rather call the Senior Tour than the PGA Tour to tell you the truth. I’m over the PGA Tour. To call the best senior players in the world, at least they’re the best,” Azinger said, a not-so-subtle jab at the Tour’s loss of talented players to LIV Golf.
Brady said he and Greg Hopfe, the Tour’s senior vice president and executive producer of live programming, met with Azinger in February to feel out his interest in the Champions Tour.
“And, you know, he wasn’t quite sure,” Brady said. “It took a lot of time to think about it. We continued to answer questions that he had, and we said, look, at the end of the day, we’re not asking you to come do a full schedule. We’re asking you to dip your toe in the water and let’s see if you like it.”
Wadkins has been the lead analyst of Golf Channel’s coverage of the Champions Tour for the last 13 years. He told Golfweek on Friday that he would do his final broadcast in January at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship, the kickoff to the 2025 Champions Tour season, and Brady said the tour would honor Wadkins’ contributions in a special ceremony to be held before the tournament. At his newsletter, The Quadrilateral, Geoff Shackelford called Wadkins “one of the most underrated analysts in golf television history.”
Azinger, who was the winning U.S. captain at the 2008 Ryder Cup, started in television in 2005 with ABC and ESPN, sharing analyst duties with Nick Faldo in a three-man booth with Mike Tirico. When ESPN lost its right to the British Open in 2015, Azinger signed with Fox Sports as lead analyst when it outbid NBC for the U.S. Open and other USGA championships. NBC hired him in 2018 to replace Johnny Miller when he passed the baton and signed off from the 2019 WM Phoenix Open. Azinger’s final broadcast was the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome.
In January, Golfweek asked Brady about Azinger and he noted that he had seen him shortly after his departure from NBC at the World Champions Cup, which was played not far from Azinger’s home at The Concession in Bradenton, Florida. Brady wondered if he could talk Azinger into bringing his vast talents to the booth on the senior circuit.
“At the right time, I want to go see if maybe he’ll jump in the booth here. Why not? But the money’s vastly different. He has to want to do it. So I’ve got to find the right time,” Brady said. “If I’m with him, just to say, hey, do you want to do a couple events? It’s too raw now.”
Turns out, the time is right for Azinger.
“For Paul, it’s not about the money and he’ll tell you it’s not about the money,” Brady said, “it’s about just staying involved in the game and being close to a lot of his contemporaries.”
When Azinger was reminded that if he enjoys it enough to stick around for a second year, he may have the opportunity to call Tiger Woods again, Azinger’s voice lit up.
“I hope he does,” Azinger said. “He says he will. I mean, if I could do five or six or seven of Tiger’s events, I would be thrilled. I’ll be thrilled anyway. Trust me, it’s gonna be good fun.”
Only two events are left in the PGA Tour in 2024, and this week, the Tour heads to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship gets underway Thursday in Bermuda, and it’s the penultimate official event of the year.
The Butterfield Bermuda is the seventh PGA Tour event of eight in the fall slate. After this week, the Tour heads to Georgia for the season-ending RSM Classic, the final chance for players to secure their spots in the top 125 for 2025.
From TV coverage to field information and prize money, here’s what you need to know about the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship.
Butterfield Bermuda Championship course information
Port Royal Golf Course in Southampton, Bermuda, is a par-71 layout measuring 6,828 yards. Robert Trent Jones was the architect. This will be the sixth time the tournament is held at Port Royal.
The purse at the 2024 Butterfield Bermuda Championship is $6.9 million with a first-place prize of $1.242 million. Five of the eight fall events have smaller purses from a year ago, but not the Butterfield Bermuda, which is up $400,000.
Butterfield Bermuda Championship TV coverage
Thursday, Nov. 14: 1-4 p.m. ET (Golf Channel) Friday, Nov. 15: 1-4 p.m. ET (Golf Channel) Saturday, Nov. 16: 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel) Sunday, Nov. 17: 11 a.m.-2 p.m. ET (Golf Channel)
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A shot back is Carson Young. Then there’s Dylan Wu in solo fourth at 10 under.
On the wrong end of the leaderboard sits an interesting group of notables who missed the cut. Time is running out for those seeking to secure status in 2025 with just two events left after this one.
The WWTC has a total purse of $7.2 million with $1.296 million of that going into the winner’s bank account. This week’s champion will also receive 500 FedEx Cup points and a two-year PGA Tour exemption.
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The purse is $7.2 million with $1.296 million going to the winner.
Taylor Montgomery had a Hall of Famer caddie for half his round Thursday. With his dad needing to bow out after nine holes, former Major Leaguer Larry Walker picked up the bag and finished the day for Montgomery, who shot 4-under 68 and sits a shot off the lead after 18 holes.
There are three tied for the lead at 5 under: Tom Whitney, Rico Hoey and Kevin Streelman. Montgomery is tied with a slew of golfers for fourth, including tournament defending champion Erik van Rooyen.
The purse at the World Wide Technology Championship is $7.2 million with $1.296 million going to the winner. The winner will also receive 500 FedEx Cup points and a two-year PGA Tour exemption. It’s the third-to-last event in 2024.
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A replacement for Wadkins will be announced at a later time.
World Golf Hall of Fame member Lanny Wadkins is winding down his 13th season of serving as the lead analyst for Golf Channel’s coverage of PGA Tour Champions this week at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship at Phoenix Country Club in Phoenix. It will also be his last full season.
“I’ve had my run,” Wadkins, who turns 75 next month, told Golfweek in a phone conversation. “It’s time.”
Wadkins will retire after working one final telecast at the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai on the Big Island of Hawaii in January, which also coincides with the Tour’s transition to having the TV broadcast team call PGA Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Tour events from its new studio that was built next to the Tour’s Global Home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. [A test run of how this will work next season is being conducted this week for the first time.]
Wadkins, who won 21 PGA Tour titles over the course of his playing career, including the PGA Championship, and was a former U.S. Ryder Cup captain, has known for a couple of years this move was coming and it would require him to fly to Jacksonville 15+ weeks a year to be part of the broadcast team with host Bob Papa (and occasionally John Swantek) and fellow commentators such as John Cook, John Mahaffey, Billy Ray Brown and Phil Blackmar.
“I think that telecast is going to be losing something for all the positives that they can come up with,” Wadkins said. “I think the personal interaction with the players is one of the best things you can do. I know, for example, when I call the tournament in Hawaii, I have breakfast every morning with various players and you get them in a surrounding like that you’re able to get more info from them on what’s going on with their games, who they’re working with, how they’re hitting it, and what they’re trying to achieve, everything else.”
This week, Wadkins is in Phoenix but he noted cost-cutting means he doesn’t even call the action from a booth anymore.
“I’m going to call this tournament, which is arguably the biggest on the Champions Tour, and I’ll sit in the compound, a little 10-by-10 windowless room, and call it off monitors. You know, they’ve just taken it in that direction,” he said.
Wadkins said he found flying from his longtime home in Dallas to Jacksonville between 15 to 20 times a year to sit in a studio less appealing. Papa already has moved his family to Ponte Vedra Beach, and Swantek is a longtime resident of the area. [An on-course reporter still will be at each tournament.]
A framed Phoenix Gazette newspaper from 1992 is part of a display case for Lanny Wadkins at Phoenix Country Club. (Golfweek)
“They want most of the people that are going to work there to move there otherwise, I mean, for me, for example, they would still be paying for a plane ticket in there, a hotel and per diem and, you know, they’re not saving money on me not living there if I was doing the telecast. So, that seems to be the bottom line in the thinking. I just hope the product doesn’t suffer, that’s my concern,” Wadkins said. “A lot of times, we’d be in the same hotel that most of the players were staying so we’d see them at the bar. And you know, I think that interaction is crucial to getting info that can improve the telecast. It doesn’t always come from me, but it may come from Papa or Cookie or whoever, but only having, you know, a walker on site, it sounds like a really lonely life just being the only person on site, nobody else there, you know, that’s gonna be kind of weird.”
Talent for PGA Tour Champions coverage is chosen by PGA Tour Entertainment not Golf Channel. A replacement for Wadkins will be announced at a later time, and Wadkins will be honored at the tour’s annual awards ceremony at Hualalai.
Wadkins may be hanging up his headset but he plans to stay active in the game with his design work.
“I’ve got six projects going on right now for Invited so I’m covered up. I’ve got two guys working for me. We’re having a very successful run and I’m really enjoying that,” Wadkins said. “And I can control my schedule better too, which is nice. I got grandkids on the way and things like that, so, you know, all the other things in life that you get to do. Think about it: I’ve been traveling 25 weeks a year or more since I’ve been 21 years old. So that’s well over 50 years. So that’s a lot of road time.”
Lanny Wadkins watches as a putt for birdie fails to drop during the 1993 PGA Championship.
He’s getting to go out on his terms after a 13-year run with PGA Tour Champions following six seasons as lead analyst on CBS Sports’ coverage of the PGA Tour, which ended on a sour note.
“It’s a business that they don’t really train you. They just throw you in there and see if you can do it. I think it took me a couple years to get my footing with CBS, for example. I think that’s why the end there was so kind of sharp because I think I had gotten my footing. I remember the last PGA Championship, which was the last telecast of the year that Jim Nantz and I did in those six years and Jimmy looked at me and said, ‘You were right on the money. You and I have hit our stride. We’re going to be great going forward.’ And a month later, it ended, and I still had three years left on my contract. So, weird business, you know, it’s hard to say what’s happening.”
But Wadkins knows one thing: he enjoyed broadcasting the senior circuit immensely.
“It kept me in the game and I’ve been around guys I’ve known my whole life,” he said.
Asked what he’ll miss most, Wadkins said he is going to miss the people and then complimented everyone from his broadcast partners to his producer. Then he remembered one more thing he’ll miss: martini night with Papa, Cookie and Billy Ray.
“We all like the same vodka, so it was a lot of fun for a while,” Wadkins added.
What night was Martini night?
“Oh, whatever night we’re all there together,” he said. “We weren’t picky.”
The WWTC is the sixth PGA Tour event of eight in the fall slate. After this week, the Tour heads to Bermuda before the season-ending RSM Classic, the final chance for players to secure their spots in the top 125.
From TV coverage to field information and prize money, here’s everything you need to know about the 2024 World Wide Technology Championship.
World Wide Technology Championship course information
El Cardonal at Diamante in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico is a par-72 layout measuring 7,452 yards. Tiger Woods was the architect. This will be the second time the tournament is held at El Cardonal.
World Wide Technology Championship purse, prize money
The purse at the 2024 Zozo Championship is $7.2 million with a first-place prize of $1.296 million. Five of the eight Fall series events have smaller purses from a year ago, including the WWTC, which is down $1 million.
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“It certainly changed for the good, all positive.”
NICHOLS HILLS, Okla. — The constant movement of golf carts between shots. The humming sound of generators strategically placed at different spots on the course. Camera crews running on the fairways between players preparing to hit their shots.
Those are all common sights and sounds at professional golf events, but in the last decade they’ve become more commonplace in college golf, especially the Division I level.
The D-I college golf national championships were broadcast on Golf Channel for the first time in 2014, with the men having a year in the spotlight before the women got their camera time a year later. Ever since, the sport’s footprint has grown and continued to do so. This fall, more than 180 hours of college golf is being shown on Golf Channel, including live events five straight weeks in October.
“It certainly changed for the good, all positive,” Oklahoma men’s coach Ryan Hybl said. “I mean, we have way more folks that are willing to come out and watch us. I think it’s only a positive. I certainly think that the pressure has been escalated, which is not a bad thing.”
A TV tower is shown in the background of the 2024 NCAA Golf Championships at Omni La Costa’s North Course in Carlsbad, California. (Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)
For certain programs, like Oklahoma, playing on TV has become commonplace. The national championship is a place teams look forward to the air time, but at many top tournaments in the fall and spring, cameras are darting around following the future stars of the professional games and giving players their first glimpse at what it’s like to play with a bit of added pressure.
Last week, the Jackson T. Stephens Cup featured, at the time, the top-ranked men’s and women’s programs in the country competing at Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club: the Oklahoma men and Arkansas women. Just this fall, it was the Razorbacks second time being on camera, in addition to their home event, the Blessings Collegiate, earlier this month.
“It gives great exposure to our golf program,” Arkansas women’s coach Shauna Taylor said. “It really gets us, you know, for us, specifically, at blessings collegiate we can showcase our home, and that’s that’s so valuable for us for three days to show Blessings.”
Maria Jose Marin, a standout sophomore for Arkansas, has gotten used to cameras following her in recent months. She captured medalist honors at the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in August, before making a run into the semifinals. The next month, she competed at the LPGA’s Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, made the cut, and after completing her final round was playing at the Blessings Collegiate the next day.
Fast forward to last week, she led the Razorbacks to a team title at the Jackson T. Stephens Cup, their third win of the fall. Two of those came on TV.
“That’s huge for her and huge for our program and our brand and their exposure and our exposure,” Taylor said. “It’s priceless.”
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons is interviewed after winning the NCAA Championship at Grayhawk Golf Club on May 24, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
The growth of college golf on TV has also been boosted by top amateur events also getting their share of air time. The Augusta National Women’s Amateur has provided an avenue unlike any other for the top female amateurs to have their stories told and build their brands. The USGA has done a good job of showcasing its junior and amateur events to audiences, and players continue to make their names winning some of the country’s most prestigious events.
But now, unlike in the past, the top amateurs don’t go into the shadows during the fall and spring when they’re in college. They remain on TV, representing their colleges.
“People really tune in. People really look forward to it,” Stanford coach Anne Walker said. “I don’t ever remember people being able to really follow the individuals within the sport. You could follow a team, but it was harder to really track on the individuals and the individual stories and what their journey had been. These stories just keep pouring into people’s homes, so you can really follow your favorite players now.”
Walker coached the greatest female amateur of all-time, Rose Zhang, whose fame and popularity was without a doubt bolstered by her success playing on television, whether it was her pair of individual wins at the national championship, the Augusta National Women’s Amateur victory, a pair of trophies in USGA events and more.
Rianne Mikhaela Malixi being interviewed in the award ceremony during the final match of the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla. on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2024. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)
College golf also fits into an early-week time slot when the professional game isn’t playing, giving those looking for live action an avenue to watch the top amateurs in the world. For those players who capitalize on that opportunity, the sky’s the limit for how it can propel them into the future.
Walker used the example of the Caitlin Clark effect in the WNBA this year, resulting in record crowds and viewership numbers. Even Walker said she was drawn to the sport after not paying much attention to it in the past.
Yet TV gave the sport and Clark a platform to grow, and it skyrocketed. College golf has done the same, and there’s still room to grow.
“We need to have really compelling individual stories to draw people into golf, and then once we get them in, then they will be compelled to follow teams, and then they’ll be compelled to follow college golf and LPGA golf,” Walker said.
Thomas showed his talking head skills late Wednesday night – or was it early Thursday morning?
Some day – mark my words – Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas are going to be in the booth together doing commentary. It may be on some still-to-be created app or the next Netflix but give it 30 years and when those guys are finally done collecting baubles on the senior circuit (if there still is a senior circuit), they’re going to take TV commentary next level.
Thomas showed his talking head skills late Wednesday night – or was it early Thursday morning? The Golf Channel televised the Zozo Championship from 11 p.m.-3 a.m. ET and for those who stayed up for first round coverage, they were treated to Thomas joining the booth with the underrated jack-of-all-trades George Savaricas and former Tour pro Graham DeLaet, who has been cutting his teeth as an analyst for PGA Tour Live and is the go-to-guy for Canada’s TSN.
After shooting 4-under 66 at Narashino Golf Club, Thomas touched on a wealth of subjects. While showing the highlights of his round, Savaricus asked Thomas about his switch back to a mallet putter this week.
“It’s great, it’s Old Faithful. I’ve had a lot of success and won a lot of tournaments with this putter,” Thomas said. “It’s a familiar, familiar feeling.”
We learned that No. 11 is a hole he’ll take par and run and some other course strategy stuff that will be useful to know while enjoying the next three rounds. Then Thomas was asked about his struggles last year and how he’s bounced back and he gave some great insight into the mental game of a major champion and former world No. 1.
“This game is so hard and can really take so much out of you and beat you up some but you’re also never as far it seems,” he said. “Is it the chicken or the egg? Was I hitting it bad and not playing well because my mental game wasn’t good or was it vice-versa?”
He continued: “I always tell people that I’m sorry, but golf is my job and if I’m not playing good golf it’s pretty hard for me to be happy. I understand everyone has different outlooks, but it’s like you need to be out there and enjoy it, but it’s like, buddy, would you be happy if you were sucking at your job? So, no, I’m not going to be happy.”
Justin Thomas will soon be a dad
Before things got too deep for late-night TV and went off the rails, Savaricas lightened the mood by bringing up the fact that Thomas was about to be last member of the Spring Break club – following in the footsteps of Spieth, Smylie Kaufman and Rickie Fowler – to become a dad. Thomas and his wife, Jillian, are expecting their first child, a daughter, in November.
“On the flight home, once this tournament is over, it’s going to become pretty real for me,” admitted Thomas, who likely is making his last start for the foreseeable future.
When Savaricus asked which of the guys he’d be most likely to ask for some advice on doing diapers, Thomas cracked, “Next question.”
“I’d ask all of their wives,” he added.
“Well played,” Savaricus said.
So about Rickie Fowler’s hair
The camera cut to Fowler weighing his next shot and Savaricus did a splendid job of setting Thomas up for his best analysis of all.
“How about Rickie’s flow now? He’s really letting it go in back,” Savaricus noted.
Hey, at 2 a.m., this is the stuff the viewer has been waiting for, am I right?
“I’m not a real big ‘Mullet Rick’ fan,” Thomas said. “I like the short hair Rickie. It’s wild, he looks about 5-8 years younger when he has his hair short. He always has something – it’s the stache, it’s the hair – but it’s Rick, you know, you’ve got to love him for whatever it is.”
Rickie Fowler at the 2024 Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
This segment with Thomas easily was the highlight of the late night-early morning coverage, and further proof that Thomas, who was great working with Charles Barkley and company on the broadcast of The Match, has a future behind the mic when he’s ready to hang up the spikes.
He even delivered one more line worthy of chuckles. As he signed off, DeLaet said what every man is supposed to say to a soon-to-be papa: “You’re going to be a great dad.”
“Aah,” Thomas said as if he was touched by the comment. “That’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.”
