How to watch Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson: Live Stream, Pay-Per-View Facts

The match is perhaps the most unique golf show we've ever seen. Hell, calling it a golf show may not be an accurate categorization. It could be a live game show with mixed Vegas golf shots. It could only be a sporting activity à la carte, golf itself is a simple way to make money a pile of money (there are many types of frames).

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson embark on a la carte golf in an experience that could become a new model for professional golfers of the highest level. The match for television is not new. It's been part of American golf for decades, with almost every legendary player participating in a television game show designed for television, at the time of black-and-white TVs. But this is a generation we have one, the last round was held in the early 2000s with the series "Monday Night Golf". In addition, we have never received one of these movies.

The PPV jump

This is perhaps the only risk that Tiger and Phil take here. The stock market is a $ 9 million winning money bag, but make no mistake, the two players come out with a nice salary. The risk may be to take this behind a payment wall, forcing people to make a more difficult choice than they would normally have on a Friday after Thanksgiving. We may never hear really accurate figures on the number of prints made by The Match in the course of a purchase, but if the drawdown collapses, it would probably affect the how they approach the next. And unless there is a total failure, the idea is to have a neighbor. It may not be another battle between Tiger and Phil, but both legends see it as a potential start for a new business model in which they have an interest.

This is not a golf show for golf nuts. These people had a whole set of sumptuous events in the fall. The idea here is to stand out and stand out from the plethora of party events by PGA Tour strokes. There is too much in the program for a league that deals better than any other with its faceless center. Players own and operate the PGA Tour and the priority is to play opportunities and paychecks for the entire club. The stars that really generate interest and can broadcast programs probably do not get a really proportionate share. That's what makes the idea that two superstars are arguing some of the money for a heap of cash is a replicable model.

Marketing and promotion resembled a price fight in Vegas. This is a show and event intended to attract a wider audience, not this group of crazy golfers who are concerned about course configuration, the Masters bass lover or love of the game. Anyway, they expect to get them back and if they disable them with the promotion, so be it.

Photo of Harry How / Getty Images for the match

Bells and whistles we've never seen

The show will not look like what we have seen before in golf. Live probabilities and probabilities will be displayed on the screen based on the course mapping data and the ShotLink data profile of both players. So, as Phil becomes reckless with a parallel bet on how he will shoot a shot or win a hole, you should be able to tell the probability that this will happen, as if you were seeing cards waiting during a retransmission live poker.

There will also be a drone camera heavily involved in production. Drones are now common in collecting golf course footage, but it is forbidden to use them when the crowd of tournaments is on the ground below. So we have never seen a player used over a live golf tournament and this should be a cool new angle to see the whole hole.

There will be microphones on players and caddies throughout the game. Tiger is probably used to the assumption that each of his words and movements could be picked up, but we now find him in the context of a match with Phil. The traveling journalist, Shane Bacon, does not need to stick a microphone in their faces and, in the absence of publicity, this discussion and jokes between the plans will be essential for the broadcast.

All of these things could be what we will see later. Or we will never see them again if it fails spectacularly. But the PGA Tour advocated for the legalization of the game and adopted it, largely because of the commercial opportunity offered by all the proprietary ShotLink data they possess. We will see live betting and live probabilities and probabilities that are much more integrated into the professional game. We have been looking for top players and caddies for years. This is much improved thanks to the haste of production but full access to players willing to wear microphones is often presented as an extra step. And the vision of drones is the type of technology that we should expect more as cameras become more mobile.

Tiger and Phil knew that they had to accept unlimited access so that everything went well, even if it involved microphones on everything and noisy drones hovering over their shots. It's an event made for television and we're going to have new bells and whistles that should be the future of what golf looks like more like television.

A mishmash of talent

According to reports, the traditional NBC / Golf Channel and CBS Sports broadcast networks were transferred and an agreement reached with ESPN for a televised match around July 4th failed. Turner won the call for bids for this TV event and seized the opportunity to broadcast it throughout the new WarnerMedia empire. So we get a Turner production with a 24/7 HBO show, PPV distributions on AT & T and DirecTV, as well as a feed on the Bleacher Report Live application.

There will also be a pre-game show that will work hard to get those last-minute PPV purchases. This show starts at 2 pm ET, an hour before the match, will feature Charles Barkley, Samuel L. Jackson and the often pro 'PGA Tour' pro, Pat Perez. The host will be Adam Lefkoe and this one-hour pre-broadcast will be free on all Bleacher Report platforms. It could be a fun show with a lot of curse and possibly some interviews with Phil and Tiger as they warm up and things get less huge and tense on the beach. It will also be a chance to show you Shadow Creek, which is a fantastic golf course built on a golf course built in the middle of a flat desert.

There are a lot of houses around this golf course now, but that still does not seem to be the best natural use of the area!

The match announcement team is a mix of talents from multiple networks. Ernie Johnson, of TNT, will receive the phone call. Darren Clarke and Peter Jacobsen of NBC will provide the analysis. It is unclear to what extent a strong golf analysis will be required for an event that is primarily entertainment-oriented. Bacon and LPGA professional Natalie Gulbis are the journalists in the field during the match. It's a solid group that should make things fun and keep it moving, ad-free for a good part of this "middleman" period, as they head for shots and head for different holes.

Nuts and bolts

So it's a golf experience and the show should illustrate this point more than anything else. This should look like everything we saw during a golf show. Here are your details on how to watch The Match:

The match begins: 15h ET

Price: $ 19.99

Streaming Online: B / R Live

TV: You can buy via DirectTV or AT & T U-Verse. The event will also be distributed by other providers such as Comcast, Charter, Cox, Verizon and Altice in the United States and Rogers, Shaw and Bell in Canada by iNDEMAND and Vubiquity.

Watch in 4K: The DirecTV 106 channel offers a 4K edition at $ 29.99.