{"id":39239,"date":"2026-01-26T16:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/espn-expands-on-brooks-koepkas-return-to-pga-tour\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:08:24","slug":"espn-expands-on-brooks-koepkas-return-to-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/espn-expands-on-brooks-koepkas-return-to-pga-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN expands on Brooks Koepka&#8217;s return to PGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"\">This week is a big one for professional golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">We have arrived at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. We&#8217;re generally talking about one of the greatest events the PGA Tour has to offer. But this week is anything but a normal week.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As you know, this year&#8217;s Farmers represents more than just your standard first-class tournament. This year, Farmers will be making his return to the PGA Tour after Brooks Koepka&#8217;s outing with LIV Golf, and the world wants to see it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">ESPN answers our call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was announced on Monday, but originally <em>pat mcafee show<\/em>ESPN has announced that it will bring live PGA Tour coverage to its primary linear channel for the opening round of play on both Thursday and Friday from 12:00pm to 3:00pm ET. Thursday&#8217;s window would naturally coincide with Koepka&#8217;s return.<\/p>\n<section class=\"consent\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">Notably, this is the first time in nearly 20 years (as reported by the tour itself) that ESPN will provide live coverage of a PGA Tour event that is not a major championship. To be clear, this means that ESPN is a linear channel, the main channel, and not secondary channel options or additional services like ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For that matter, the broadcast will be available on ESPN, but the company will also release it on both Hulu and Disney+ for those who prefer to watch it that way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Brooks Koepka is back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is a big one for professional golf. We have arrived at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. We&#8217;re generally talking about one of the greatest events the PGA Tour has to offer. But this week is anything but a normal week. advertisement As you know, this year&#8217;s Farmers represents more than just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-39239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}