Around the Tours: Golf TV Broadcast Schedule May 1-6

Let’s go around the tours and check out the TV schedule for this week in golf.

Around the Tours a full week of golf on TV lies ahead with a few fun, unique tournament formats to pique our interest.

Traditional stroke play events will be held at the PGA Tour’s Wells Fargo Championship and the PGA Tour Champions’ Prosperity Invitational.

A new type of abbreviated match play will take center stage at the European Tour’s GolfSixes in England.

The LPGA is also diverting from stroke play with the Citibanamex Lorena Ochoa Match Play though Golf Channel will not have coverage like it did for last week’s Volunteers of America Texas Shootout.

No coverage is on schedule for the Web.com Tour’s Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship in the Dominican Republic, either.

The Ladies European Tour is on week two of a hiatus until June.

Some other non-tournament golf television of interest includes a new episode of Feherty, some Wells Fargo Championship classics and an early-week golf flick.

Without further ado, take a look below at how to get your golf fix this week.

All times Eastern.  Channels are Golf Channel unless noted.

Monday, May 1

• 9 a.m. — Zurich Classic of New Orleans sudden death playoff

A hole-out eagle from Kevin Kisner on the 18th landed him and Scott Brown in a playoff against Jonas Blixt and Cameron Smith bright and new early from TPC Louisiana.

• 9 p.m. — Feherty (replay at 10 p.m. and throughout the week)

David Feherty welcomes his sixth female guest in eight seasons, Nancy Lopez. Lopez is in the World Golf Hall of Fame thanks to 48 LPGA wins, three of them majors. One of women’s golf’s highest figures opens up about her adoption, close calls at the US Open and more.

Tuesday, May 2

• 8 and 10:30 p.m. — “The Greatest Game Ever Played”

Shia LaBeouf portrays Francis Ouimet, a 20-year-old who miraculously won the 1913 US Open virtually in his backyard in Brookline, Massachusetts. The uplifting story about a working class kid overcoming the odds earned a respectable 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.5/10 on IMDB.

Wednesday, May 3

• 8:30 p.m. — Golf’s Greatest Rounds: The 2016 Players

The Players Championship looms just over a week away. Get hyped for TPC Sawgrass by watching Jason Day cruise to victory over recent PGA Tour winner, Kevin Chappell, in 2016.  This week is sure to be an emotional tournament defense for Day on Mother’s Day weekend.

Thursday, May 4

• 10 a.m. — noon PGA Tour Classics: Wells Fargo Championship

The first hour features a curly-haired Rory McIlroy making the cut on the number before birdying the 18th for a course record Sunday 62 and a win over Phil Mickelson.

Hour two takes us back to 2012 where Rickie Fowler claimed his long-awaited maiden PGA Tour win in a playoff over D.A. Points and that guy Rory again.

• noon — Golf Central Special: NCAA Men’s Regionals Selection Show
• 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. (replay at 7 and 11) — PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship 1st round

We’re blessed with an extra hour of coverage over the first two days as a strong field joins defending champ James Hahn at Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington. The WFC will return to traditional tournament site, Quail Hollow, after it hosts the 2017 PGA Championship.

Check out PGA Tour pro Zac Blair’s Twitter feed for a look inside the ropes at EPGC.

Friday, May 5

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• 2 p.m. – 6 p.m. (replay at 8:30) — PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship 2nd round
• 6 – 8 p.m. – PGA Tour Champions, Prosperity Invitational 1st round

Defending champion Jesper Parnevik is out for PGA Tour Champions win No. 2 in The Woodlands, Texas. Word is the man pictured above will be in the field, too.

Saturday, May 6

Blowout coverage of day one of two at the inaugural GolfSixes can be found from Centurion Club in St. Albans, England. Teams of two representing 16 countries play a unique greensomes match play format to crown a champion.

• 12:30 – 2 p.m. — PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship 3rd round
• 2 – 6 p.m. — PGA Tour, Wells Fargo Championship 3rd round (CBS)
• 7 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — European Tour, GolfSixes day 1Golf… but not as you know it
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Sunday, May 7

Schedules to be released Monday.

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For additional tv broadcast information around the tours check your local service provider listings.