Masters 2021 golf tournament: TV schedule today, how to watch and more

Most years, golf followers should wait a complete calendar yr for the return of spring and the Masters. Though this previous yr appeared to tug on for the higher a part of a decade, we have needed to wait the usual 12 months for the azaleas in Augusta once more to bloom. This yr’s event, nevertheless, is happening a mere 5 months after final yr’s model of the event was moved to November. For the primary time in two years, we’ll get to see the Masters performed in its conventional spot as golf’s first main event of the yr on the second weekend in April.

Tiger Woods received the Masters two years in the past, however he’ll miss this yr’s event as he recovers from a severe automobile accident. Dustin Johnson is the defending champion from November and the favourite to win his second inexperienced jacket this week. Other favorites embody Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. 

With or with out a cable TV subscription, golf followers have loads of methods to look at the world’s finest golfers compete on the world’s finest golf course this week. This is what it’s essential know.

• What: The 2021 Masters Match
• When: April 8-11
• The place: Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, Augusta, Georgia
• Channels: ESPN and CBS

Reside US TV protection of the Masters

ESPN will broadcast the primary two rounds on Thursday and Friday, and CBS has the weekend protection for the ultimate two rounds.

Thursday and Friday

• Three p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET (12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT) on ESPN

Saturday

• Three p.m. to 7 p.m. on ET (12 p.m. to Four p.m. PT) on CBS

Sunday 

• 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET (11 a.m. to Four p.m. PT) on CBS

Free livestreams on Masters.com and CBSSports.com

On the Masters website or mobile app, you possibly can stream stay with out having to check in with a pay TV supplier. You too can watch a livestream of the Masters on CBSSports.com or the CBS Sports app, additionally with no need pay TV credentials. The Masters website can have the TV simulcast livestream every day, and each the Masters website and CBS Sports activities will provide an extra 5 livestreams every of the 4 days of the event:

• You possibly can observe featured teams on the Masters all through every day.
• You possibly can watch golfers navigate holes 4, 5 and 6.
• You possibly can watch the motion because it passes via Amen Nook, Augusta Nationwide’s most well-known sequence of holes: the treacherous par-4 11th, the quick par-3 12th, and the lengthy par-5 13th.
• You possibly can watch golfers navigate holes 15 and 16.
• You possibly can choose your favourite golfers and watch all of their photographs with the My Group characteristic.

Reside TV streaming choices

If you do not have a cable or satellite tv for pc TV subscription, you possibly can watch the Masters with a stay TV streaming service. All 5 of the foremost companies provide ESPN, and 4 of the 5 (all however Sling TV) provide CBS. In case you’re solely involved in watching the ultimate two rounds of the event over the weekend, you should utilize Paramount Plus. The catch is that not each service carries each native community, so test each utilizing the hyperlinks beneath to ensure it carries CBS in your space.

In case you stay in an space with good reception, you possibly can watch the weekend protection on CBS totally free on over-the-air broadcast channels simply by attaching an reasonably priced (beneath $30) indoor antenna to just about any TV.

Stream all 4 rounds on ESPN and CBS

Stream solely the weekend rounds from CBS

Stream solely the primary two rounds from ESPN

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