The way many of us watch television has changed significantly over the past few years. For decades, the majority of TV viewers were cable or satellite subscribers. The number of cable or satellite subscribers has been steadily declining over the past several years and will continue to do so.
The percentage of viewers streaming content through the Internet has now surpassed cable customers. Streaming allows us to determine when and where we watch shows and movies. It also allows us to pay for content from many different sources, paying only for what we want to watch on a month-to-month basis, instead of paying for a multi-year contract of cable or satellite, which includes so much content we may never watch.
I still enjoy watching golf, specifically the PGA Tour, but I wanted to avoid paying for a live TV streaming service that costs, as of this writing, over $60 a month. Thankfully there are ways you can still watch a lot of the PGA Tour without the need for live TV.
First and foremost, you can do what one in five viewers do, and watch broadcast TV. Buy an indoor HDTV antenna for $20 or less and pick up local station signals over the air. CBS will air weekend coverage of 23 PGA Tour events in 2023, including 11 of the 17 designated tournaments. NBC will air weekend coverage of 8 PGA Tour events in 2023. That’s quite a few hours of golf!
You may have the desire to watch more golf. Or you may not be able to receive good over the air signals in your location. I may be able to get NBC by investing in a better antenna, but with my current setup I can only get CBS and Fox. Or you may, like me, enjoy watching first and second round coverage on Thursday and/or Friday. In any of these cases, you’ll need to look at streaming options.
With NBC’s Peacock Premium streaming service for $4.99 a month, you can watch all 8 of the PGA Tour events on NBC, plus 26 more! Coverage from all 4 rounds of the tournaments is many times included.
ESPN+ streaming service is the current home of PGA Tour Live. For $9.99 a month, you get coverage of over 35 PGA Tour events in the 2022-2023 season! This includes main coverage feeds of many of the rounds, especially the first and second rounds, and featured group and feature hole feeds of all four rounds. I initially thought I’d miss not seeing all the golfers by watching a featured group feed, but there is much to be learned from watching the same golfers traverse the whole course.
With all these options, if you enjoy watching professional golf, you can watch a large amount of it for $15 a month. You’ll also get a great deal of content besides golf on both Peacock and ESPN+.
God provides for us through his abundance. By being good stewards of what He provides for us, we can do more with it, helping others.
When Jesus fed 5,000 men, probably over 10,000 total people when including women and children, with five loaves and two fish, there were still twelve baskets of leftovers. Even with all the abundance, he instructed his disciples to gather up the leftovers.