2026 BMW Championship Thursday TV coverage: How to watch Round 1

The 2026 BMW Championship gets underway Thursday morning with the first round at Bellerive in St. Louis, Mo. Here’s everything you need to know to watch the tournament on Thursday, including full BMW Championship TV coverage, streaming details and complete Round 1 tee times.

How to watch BMW Championship on Thursday

Only the top 50 players in the FedEx Cup standings will tee it up on Thursday at the BMW Championship. But by next Thursday at the Tour Championship, that number will have been slashed to 30.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is not among those who have to worry about making the finale at East Lake. The yearlong FedEx Cup leader further cemented his position with a big victory at last week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship.

The 2026 FedEx Cup bonuses will be distributed at the end of the BMW, and Scheffler has been so good this year that no one can top him for the enormous first-place prize of $23 million.

But that won’t stop Scheffler from trying his best to defend his 2025 BMW title and secure PGA Tour win No. 22 this week.

You can watch the first round of the BMW Championship on TV via Golf Channel and ESPN, with ESPN opening the coverage at 10 a.m. ET on Thursday, followed by Golf Channel at 3 p.m. ET. PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will provide exclusive early streaming coverage starting at 9:15 a.m. ET, as well as featured group and featured hole coverage. In addition, ESPN+ will offer a “Marquee Group: Quiet Please” stream featuring no announcers. The Golf Channel App will carry a simulcast of Golf Channel’s Thursday TV coverage.

Below you will find everything you need to know to watch the first round of the 2026 BMW Championship.

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How to watch on TV Thursday

ESPN and Golf Channel will provide first-round TV coverage of the 2026 BMW Championship. ESPN’s telecast is from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET on Thursday. Golf Channel’s coverage runs from 3-7 p.m. ET.

How to stream online Thursday

You can stream the first round of the 2026 BMW Championship via PGA Tour Live on ESPN+, which will offer streaming coverage starting at 10 a.m. ET on Thursday in addition to featured group and hole coverage and a live simulcast of ESPN’s Thursday TV coverage. You can also watch the “Marquee Group: Quiet Please” live stream free of announcers on ESPN+. A live simulcast of Golf Channel’s TV coverage will be available on the Golf Channel App.

2026 BMW Championship Round 1 tee times (ET)

Tee No. 1

10:03 a.m. – Justin Thomas, Sahith Theegala 10:14 a.m. – Sepp Straka, Sungjae Im 10:25 a.m. – Aaron Rai, Ben Griffin 10:36 a.m. – Gary Woodland, Adam Scott 10:47 a.m. – Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Åberg 11:05 a.m. – Ryan Fox, Tom Kim 11:16 a.m. – Justin Rose, Alex Smalley 11:27 a.m. – Kristoffer Reitan, Alex Fitzpatrick 11:38 a.m. – Akshay Bhatia, Hideki Matsuyama 11:49 a.m. – Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns 12:07 p.m. – Cameron Young, Si Woo Kim 12:18 p.m. – Michael Brennan, Eric Cole 12:29 p.m. – Patrick Cantlay, Ryo Hisatsune 12:40 p.m. – Michael Thorbjornsen, Nico Echavarria 12:51 p.m. – Jake Knapp, Alex Noren 1:09 p.m. – Robert MacIntyre, Rickie Fowler 1:20 p.m. – Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele 1:31 p.m. – Bud Cauley, Nicolai Højgaard 1:42 p.m. – Viktor Hovland, J.J. Spaun 1:53 p.m. – J.T. Poston, Kurt Kitayama 2:11 p.m. – Ryan Gerard, Min Woo Lee 2:22 p.m. – Chris Gotterup, Tommy Fleetwood 2:33 p.m. – Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick 2:44 p.m. – Russell Henley, Jacob Bridgeman 2:55 p.m. – Maverick McNealy, Matt McCarty