Sunday might be one of the most underrated couch days: Here’s why

No, Sunday just isn’t a sports activities equinox — when all 4 of North America’s main skilled sports activities play on the similar day — however for golf and soccer followers, it might be simply nearly as good.

The PGA Tour’s new FedEx Cup Fall season started this week with the Fortinet Championship. However, the first PGA Tour occasion in three weeks is being staged in California, and in contrast to the Tour’s west coast swing which can begin once more in January, tee occasions aren’t moved up so the spherical ends by 6 p.m. in the East.

Instead, the remaining spherical of the Fortinet will be proven on Golf Channel from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., reside in primetime.

For diehard golf followers, that might be a bummer, having to attend all day, and have dinner throughout the viewing window. However, it’s September and which means two issues:

With BMW PGA Championship going down in the morning on the East Coast, after which being adopted by the NFL’s Week 2 kickoffs, if you happen to select to remain inside and watch TV all day, regardless of how good it’s outdoors, we gained’t blame you.

Consider this a viewing information for Sunday’s matinee of sporting occasions.

BMW PGA Championship

Location: Wentworth Club – England
Broadcast: 7 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET – Golf Channel (5 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Peacock)

Some of the sport’s finest gamers have proven out for the DP World Tour’s Flagship occasion. For context, this occasion is the European equal of the Players Championship.

All 12 of the European Ryder Cup staff members are in England this week. All 12 made the lower and several other are proper in the thick of the match.

Through three rounds, Team Europe’s youngest participant, and the hottest not named “Viktor,” Ludvig Aberg leads the manner by two strokes over teammate Tommy Fleetwood and Scotland’s Connor Syme.

There had been rumblings of Aberg’s potential inclusion on the European Team going again to earlier than he even turned professional in June, however he made these rumblings a actuality when he gained in his remaining look earlier than Luke Donald’s captain’s picks at the Omega European Masters.

Now, Aberg is seeking to show it wasn’t a one-off win earlier than he turns into the first participant ever to play in a Ryder Cup with no main begins.

While Fleetwood is in the tie for second, World No. 3 Jon Rahm can also be in the combine, sitting 4 again at 12 beneath.

Coverage stateside begins on Golf Channel at 7 a.m. ET, however that can be with a slight tape delay. Live protection will be obtainable on Peacock beginning at 5 a.m.

NFL Week 2

Location: United States
Broadcast: 1 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET – CBS, FOX and NBC

The good factor about Golf Channel’s protection of the DP World Tour this time of yr, it ends at 12:30, that means you both have half-hour to catch just a little of Golf Channel’s pregame present for the night’s golf, swap to your most well-liked sports activities community for pregame NFL protection or head to your favourite institution to observe all the video games with your folks.

We know you’re not right here for soccer protection, therefore the title of this web site, so we gained’t be supplying you with a breakdown of Sunday’s 12 non-primetime matchups. But we’ll let you know, if you wish to catch all of the televised golf, you’ve obtained sufficient time to observe all of the 1 p.m. video games, and lots of time to see the first halves of the 4 p.m. video games.

And if you tune into the golf, you’ll be able to really feel assured Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen, a famous golf nerd whose staff hosts the Las Vegas Raiders at 1 p.m, *might* be doing the similar factor.

And if soccer isn’t your cup of tea, the 12:30 p.m. ET end of the DP World Tour offers you lots of time for a spherical of your personal. Go take pleasure in the lovely fall climate!

Fortinet Championship

Location: Silverado Resort – California, U.S.
Broadcast: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET – Golf Channel/Peacock

The first occasion of the PGA Tour’s new FedEx Fall has a sneaky terrific leaderboard.

Sahith Theegala, one of the most constant gamers on the Tour over his first two seasons, heads into the remaining spherical holding the third 54-hole lead of his younger profession as he seeks his debut victory.

But maybe extra eyes will look to Justin Thomas, who sits in a three-way tie for second, two photographs again. Thomas is coming off the worst PGA Tour season of his profession the place he did not qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs and missed the lower in three of 4 majors.

However, captain Zach Johnson picked him for the Ryder Cup anyway and this week was seen by many as a manner for him to validate Johnson’s religion.

So far, so good, particularly after Thomas made 5 birdies and an eagle Saturday for a bogey-free 65 to leap up the leaderboard.

Nine-time PGA Tour winner Matt Kuchar can also be in the combine in a tied for fifth at 14 beneath, three photographs again.

And as soon as the champion is topped in Napa, assuming there isn’t a playoff, you’ll be capable of swap to NBC to catch the majority of Sunday Night Football with the Miami Dolphins visiting the New England Patriots.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf staff and not too long ago returned to the program to function head coach. Jack additionally nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Before becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He can be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.