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How to watch the 2024 British Open on NBC, USA and Peacock

The Open will be on NBC and USA Network as well as NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

The 152nd edition of the British Open will get underway Thursday with a field of 158 golfers looking to take home the Claret Jug and the golf season’s final major title.

Royal Troon – just outside Glasgow in Scotland – will be hosting this year’s event for the 10th time in its history.

The par-71 course measures 7,385 yards from the championship tees, but – as with most courses in the Open rota – the wind, gorse and bunkers will all play major roles in how it plays.

Among Troon’s most notable holes are the 632-yard, par-five No. 6, the Open’s longest hole, and the par-3 No. 8, better known as the “Postage Stamp.” It’s the Open’s shortest par 3, playing from as little as 99 up to 123 yards.

Royal Troon Golf Club
The par-3 eighth “Postage Stamp” hole at Royal Troon’s Old Course in Troon, Scotland. (David Cannon/R&A/R&A via Getty Images)

The Open is July 18-21, Thursday through Sunday, on the Old Course at Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland. Founded in 1878, it last hosted the British Open in 2016, when Sweden’s Henrik Stenson prevailed in a thriller over Phil Mickelson.

How to watch 2024 British Open on TV

The Open will be broadcast live over the air on NBC and on cable on USA Network, with NBC’s Peacock offering the streaming. Golf Channel is also offering pre- and post-round coverage.

Tuesday, July 16

R&A Live at the Range, 4 a.m., Peacock

Live From the Open, 6 a.m., Golf Channel

R&A Live at the Range, 11 a.m., Peacock

Live at the Range, 11 a.m., Golf Channel

Wednesday, July 17

R&A Live at the Range, 4 a.m., Peacock

Live From the Open, 6 a.m., Golf Channel

R&A Live at the Range, 11 a.m., Peacock

Live at the Range, 11 a.m., Golf Channel

Thursday, July 18

First round, 1:30 a.m.- 4 a.m., Peacock

First round, 4 a.m.-3 p.m., USA Network (Watch USA FREE on Fubo)

First round, 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Peacock

Live from the Open, 3 p.m., Golf Channel

Friday, July 19

Second round, 1:30 a.m.- 4 a.m., Peacock

Second round, 4 a.m.-3 p.m., USA Network (Watch USA FREE on Fubo)

Second round, 3 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Peacock

Live from the Open, 3 p.m., Golf Channel

Saturday, July 20

Third round, 4:15 a.m.-7 a.m., Peacock

Third round, 7 a.m.- 3 p.m., NBC/Peacock (Watch NBC FREE on Fubo)

Live from the Open, 3 p.m., Peacock

Sunday, July 21

Final round, 3:15 a.m.-7 a.m., Peacock

Final round, 7 a.m.- 2 p.m., NBC/Peacock (Watch NBC FREE on Fubo)

Live from the Open, 2 p.m., Peacock

The R&A’s website is also streaming “Live at the Range” as well as featured groups and “Postage Stamp Live”, showing all the shots on the famed par 3.

How to watch the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on NBC, Golf Channel and Peacock

Here’s how to follow the action.

The third women’s major championship of the year is here.

The 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is set to kick off Thursday at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington. The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is the second oldest LPGA major championship, beginning in 1955. Originally being played as the LPGA Championship, in 2015 it was renamed the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship after a partnership was announced between the PGA of America, the LPGA and KPMG.

This will be the second time this major championship will be played at Sahalee Country Club. It was first played at the venue in 2016 and won by Brooke Henderson.

Ruoning Yin is the defending KPMG Women’s PGA champion, having captured the title last spring at Baltusrol.

The purse is $10 million with $1.5 million going to the winner.

Here’s how to watch the 2024 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. All times listed below are ET.

Thursday, June 20

Peacock: 4-6 p.m.; Golf Channel: 6-10 p.m.

Friday, June 21

Peacock: 4-6 p.m.; Golf Channel: 6-10 p.m.

Saturday, June 22

Peacock: 1-3 p.m.; NBC: 3-6 p.m.; Golf Channel: 6-8
p.m.

Sunday, June 23

Peacock: 12-3 p.m.; NBC: 3-7 p.m.

U.S. Open’s Peacock TV debacle is just the beginning for pro golf fans

Did you see Rory McIlroy’s birdie on the final hole of the first round of the U.S. Open on Thursday?

Did you see Rory McIlroy’s birdie on the final hole of the first round of the U.S. Open on Thursday?

If the answer is yes, and you saw the putt live rather than in a highlight package, then you are one of the golf fans who have Peacock, NBC’s subscription-based streaming service. If you didn’t see it live, you were probably cursing under your breath that the powers that run television and sports have found another way to milk a few dollars out of viewers.

The social media world exploded when the U.S. Open switched from USA Network, a standard network commonly found on most platforms including cable, to Peacock on Thursday afternoon. Those chants grew a little louder on Friday when USA Network wasn’t part of the Open broadcast, but Peacock was the television platform for the morning and late afternoon sessions. NBC carried the Open midday.

The Open might be the sporting event at the center of anger about paywalls for the moment, but in reality this is nothing new. In a search for more lucrative sources of revenue, major sports are increasingly tucking at least some of their content behind streaming services that require an additional subscription.

U.S. OPEN: Leaderboard | Hole-by-hole | How to watch

The PGA Tour has certainly been at the center of this movement with early round action now broadcast on ESPN+ and Peacock for some time now. Other sports are also on Peacock, such as the LPGA, Indy Car racing, boxing, soccer and a ton of U.S. Olympic trials for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris. Much of those Games will be on Peacock as well.

You may also remember that the National Football League put one of its playoff games last season on Peacock. The NFL, never at a loss for a way to squeeze an extra dollar out of fans and sponsors, has already put its Thursday Night Football games on pay service Amazon Prime. Major League Baseball isn’t immune to the movement, taking some Friday games and giving them exclusively to Apple TV, meaning those games aren’t on the regional sports networks fans traditionally watch.

Not going away

If you think your favorite sports moving to streaming services that require an additional subscription is a trend that can’t continue, think again. The NFL recently announced that it will play two games on Christmas Day this year, and both will be on Netflix, another pay service. Meanwhile, NBC is on the verge of announcing a new deal to take over the NBA package currently held by TNT through next season. When NBC does get the pro basketball contract, the scuttlebutt is many of the games (who knows how many games) will be broadcast on – you guessed it – Peacock.

Again, none of this is new. Golf has been on Peacock for a while, and websites like Masters.com have increasingly been showing a more diverse golf broadcast than traditional television platforms can show. Peacock, for instance, shows featured groups on streams that aren’t showing the regular broadcast.

But streaming services cost money, and that starts to add up for fans who watch other platforms, whether cable or outlets like YouTube TV or Hulu for the bulk of their television. Maybe it’s just $10 a month, but consider that the NFL is now asking fans to subscribe to Amazon Prime, Netflix and Peacock to see games.

The reason the trend is actually growing is because fans do follow their sports wherever they are broadcast. Maybe not all fans, but enough fans for the sports and the streaming services to believe the money spent for broadcasting rights is money well spent. If no one was watching, would the NFL hide two Christmas Day games on Netflix?

So if the trend isn’t going away, and is in fact growing, it is easy to start conjecturing what sporting events will be on streaming services next. Early games in the expanded College Football Playoffs could be a target by streaming services. So could the WNBA, which is growing fans quickly in the last year. The Major League Baseball playoffs might send an entire early round series to a streaming platform.

For fans of the U.S. Open this weekend, Peacock only comes into play for targeted feature groups. The main broadcast will be on USA for a few hours and then NBC the rest of the day. But it’s easy to see how the shift to streaming services could continue to shift in the future as cable viewership shrinks and streaming services keep looking for subscribers. If you want to follow the sports to streaming services, just follow the money.

Larry Bohannan is the golf writer for The Desert Sun. You can contact him at (760) 778-4633 or at larry.bohannan@desertsun.com. Follow him on Facebook or on Twitter at @larry_bohannan. 

How to watch the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst on NBC, USA and Peacock

Get ready for more than 200 hours of live golf.

It’s finally here, the 124th U.S. Open.

The national championship is being staged at Pinehurst No. 2 for a fourth time. Payne Stewart (1999), Michael Campbell (2005) and Martin Kaymer (2014) are the previous winners of the event there.

There is a field of 156 tackling a par-70 track measuring 7,543 yards. The Donald Ross design opened in 1907.

In 2024, there will be more than 200 hours of coverage on the NBC family of networks, with the main broadcast, featured groups and featured holes as well as and studio coverage on NBC, USA and Golf Channel and streamed on Peacock.

U.S. OPEN: Tournament hub | Hole-by-hole | Field

NBC’s coverage starts Friday and continues with over the weekend up through the trophy ceremony Sunday evening.

Note: All times listed are ET.

Monday, June 10

Golf Central Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Golf Channel and Peacock, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Tuesday, June 11

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Wednesday, June 12

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Thursday, June 13

First round, USA, 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Featured Groups, usopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, all day

U.S. Open All Access, Peacock, 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

First round, Peacock, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Friday, June 14

Second round, Peacock, 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Featured Groups, usopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, all day

U.S. Open All Access, Peacock, 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Second round, NBC, 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Second round, Peacock, 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Saturday, June 15

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Featured Groups, usopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, all day

U.S. Open All Access, Peacock, 10 a.m. – noon

Third round, USA, 10 a.m. to noon

Third round, NBC, noon to 8 p.m.

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Sunday, June 16

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open, Golf Channel, 8 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Featured Groups, usopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, all day

U.S. Open All Access, Peacock, 9 a.m. – noon

Final round, USA, 9 a.m. to noon

Final round, NBC, noon to 7 p.m.

Golf Central: Live From the U.S. Open (Golf Channel), 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

How to watch the 2024 U.S. Women’s Open on NBC, USA, Peacock, Golf Channel

NBC, USA, Golf Channel and Peacock are teaming up for all the coverage.

The 2024 U.S. Women’s Open tees off Thursday at Lancaster Country Club in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

It’ll be the 79th rendition of the longest running women’s professional golf championship.

“When I was at media day here about a month ago, I used the number nine a lot,” said USGA CEO Mike Whan on Wednesday. “Nine years ago we were here at Lancaster Country Club. This is the 91st time the USGA has teed it up in the state of Pennsylvania, more than any other state in the country. And this is the 999th USGA championship since we began running championships in 1895.”

Here in 2024, the USGA is partnering with the NBC Sports family to bring 26 hours of live coverage on TV with NBC and USA and streaming on Peacock.

USA and Peacock will have 16 hours over the first two rounds with NBC taking over the main TV broadcast over the weekend.

U.S. Women’s Open: Leaderboard | Photos

Fans can also stream the action and get live leaderboards on uswomensopen.com and the USGA App.

All times listed below are ET.

Thursday, May 30

First-round featured groups, uswomensopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. (Morning wave: Nelly Korda, Nasa Hataoka, Megan Khang, Lydia Ko, Charley Hull, Jin Young Ko; afternoon wave: Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang, Minjee Lee, Brooke Henderson, Yuka Saso, Hannah Green)

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

First round, Peacock, noon – 2 p.m.

First Round, USA, 2 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Friday, May 31

Second round featured groups, uswomensopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, 8 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. (Morning wave: Lexi Thompson, Rose Zhang, Minjee Lee, Brooke Henderson, Yuka Saso, Hannah Green; afternoon wave: Nelly Korda, Nasa Hataoka, Megan Khang, Lydia Ko, Charley Hull, Jin Young Ko)

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Second round, Peacock, noon – 2 p.m.

Second Round, USA, 2 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 8 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Saturday, June 1

Featured groups, uswomensopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, all day

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Third round, Peacock, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Third round, NBC, 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Sunday, June 2

Featured Groups, uswomensopen.com, USGA App, Peacock, all day

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, Golf Channel and Peacock, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Final round, Peacock, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Final round, USA, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.

Final round, NBC, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Live From the U.S. Women’s Open, (Golf Channel and Peacock, 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.

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Brandel Chamblee named lead analyst for NBC’s coverage of 2024 U.S. Open

Chamblee has been a staple of Golf Channel’s “Live From” show after the completion of play at the majors.

Brandel Chamblee recently compared trying to replace Johnny Miller as lead analyst on NBC Sports to following late comedian Robin Williams on stage.

“It’s just not going to look good no matter who you are because Johnny was a god at that role, and I think that was probably – it’s going to be troubling for anybody in that role,” he said in an interview with Golfweek in March.

Well, Chamblee will get to experience that feeling for himself as NBC announced on Monday that the 61-year-old Tour pro turned broadcaster will work alongside lead golf play-by-play voice Dan Hicks at the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club (No. 2 course) across NBC, Peacock and USA Network.

Mike Tirico will also work alongside analyst Brad Faxon in NBC’s four-man booth.

“This year we began utilizing an odd/even system of hole assignments for our commentator pairings,” said Sam Flood, executive producer and president, production, NBC Sports. “Our new approach lets our play-by-play announcers give more context for what’s happening, while creating more opportunities for our analysts and on-course reporters to engage with each other and break down the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ before and after each moment.”

Chamblee has been a staple of Golf Channel’s “Live From” show after the completion of play at the majors. Speaking in March, he said he wasn’t opposed to doing double duty.

NBC has been rotating broadcasters this season since deciding not to renew Paul Azinger’s contract.

NBC also announced that Jim “Bones” Mackay and Roger Maltbie will return as on-course reporters and Gary Koch will serve as an analyst. Mackay was lead analyst at the Mexico Open and worked on Golf Channel’s coverage of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur. He and Justin Thomas parted ways in April, and he hasn’t hooked up as a caddie for a new player yet. Maltbie and Koch worked at the Players Championship in March during the opening two rounds.

In all, NBC will provide more than 200-plus hours of programming of the U.S. Open, held June 13-16.

Marco Fabian, Ryan Babel among stars of Peacock reality dating show

Five soccer players will search for love while going undercover

Former Mexico international Marco Fabian and ex-Netherlands star Ryan Babel are among the five contestants in Peacock’s new reality dating show, “Love Undercover.”

According to Peacock, the show “is a modern-day fairytale meets buddy comedy about an elite group of international soccer stars who come to the United States on a secret quest for true love.”

The secret in question revolves around the players’ true identities. As the trailer demonstrates, the stars of the show are instructed to keep their profession under wraps in order to see if the ladies involved will love them simply for who they are.

“They don’t know we are famous, they don’t know we are rich,” Fabian says.

Exactly how rich and famous the five contestants are may vary. Fabian, Babel and ex-Tottenham defender Jamie O’Hara had long careers at the highest levels of the game.

The other two? Sebastián Fassi is a goalkeeper who has mostly bounced around the lower divisions in Mexico and Spain, while Lloyd Jones has spent his career in England’s third and fourth divisions. He is currently a member of League One’s Charlton.

Nevertheless, the drama promises to be ever-present as the five soccer players attempt to find love among a group of 18 women.

“I think girls in the past have gone for me because of what I’ve got,” O’Hara says in the trailer before Fassi adds: “That’s why we’re going undercover.”

“Love Undercover” premieres May 9 on Peacock.

Watch the “Love Undercover” trailer

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First round of Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments only on one streaming service

More streaming-only games on the horizon:

The first round of the 2024 Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be exclusively broadcast on Peacock, according to a release from NBC Sports.

The women’s tournament began Wednesday, March 6, while the men’s tournament tips off Wednesday, March 13.

The first round of each tournament only includes games between the conference’s bottom four teams — No. 11 vs No. 14 and No. 12 vs No. 13 specifically.

Related: ESPN Bracketology: Latest update on Wisconsin entering final stretch

The second round is where most of the real action begins, and is where Wisconsin is currently slated in both brackets.

The Wisconsin women’s team is the No. 10 seed entering the tournament and is scheduled to face No. 7 Penn State at 5:30 p.m. central on Thursday, March 7.

The Wisconsin men’s team, meanwhile, is currently the No. 5 seed with a few conference games remaining. A 2-0 record could bring them to the double-bye category and have them avoid the second round entirely.

Either way, neither Badger basketball team will be playing its Big Ten Tournament contest on Peacock.

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Wisconsin’s game against Maryland will only be available on one streaming platform

Wisconsin is back to streaming-only against Maryland

Here we are again.

The Wisconsin Badgers (17-9, 9-6 Big Ten) return to the court Tuesday night against the Maryland Terrapins (14-12, 6-9 Big Ten), desperately needing to steer the season in the right direction.

The Badgers have lost five of their last six games, including Saturday’s overtime buzzer-beater loss to Iowa. The team has fallen far from where it was atop the Big Ten entering February. There is still time for a successful season to be salvaged, but it must start in this final stretch of the Big Ten schedule.

Related: Which Big Ten football team has the toughest conference schedule in 2024?

For fans tired of watching Wisconsin struggle to play well, there is some good news. Tuesday’s game will be available exclusively on NBC’s streaming service Peacock.

The Badgers last played on Peacock one week ago — a 62-54 win over the Ohio State Buckeyes. Maybe that can be a sign of good things to come.

If fans somehow still don’t have a subscription, it costs $5.99 per month, or $59.99 for the entire year.

To say that Wisconsin needs a win on Tuesday would be an understatement. That might be a secondary worry for some, that after figuring out how to watch the game.

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How to watch Wisconsin basketball vs Maryland

How to watch Wisconsin basketball vs Maryland

The Wisconsin Badgers return to the basketball court Tuesday night against the Maryland Terrapins.

The Badgers enter after a crushing overtime loss to Iowa which dropped the team to 17-9 on the season and 9-6 in Big Ten play. The team has dropped five of its last six, has lost position in the Big Ten standings and is playing easily its worst basketball of the season.

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Maryland, meanwhile, is 14-12 on the season and 6-9 in Big Ten play. It too is on a bit of a skid, dropping four of its last five games.

ESPN’s matchup simulator gives the Badgers a 83.1% chance to exit with a victory. I’m sure fans who have watched the last few weeks of Wisconsin basketball may disagree.

Tuesday’s game is yet another Peacock game, available only on the streaming service. Wisconsin defeated Ohio State in its last Peacock game, possibly signaling a good outcome in this contest.

Here is how and when to watch Wisconsin vs Maryland:

  • Date: Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024
  • Time: 9 p.m. ET, 8 p.m. CT
  • TV Channel: Peacock (streaming only)

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