Masters TV coverage a mixed bag of streaming frustration

Welcome to Friday astatine The Masters. Tune into the Masters app, Masters.com, Prime TV, Paramount+ and ESPN for your wall-to-wall coverage!

Yes, it seems similar a dense lift. In immoderate ways, it has been for play fans. Gone are the days of CBS firing up the cameras astatine 3 p.m., and showing america 4 consecutive hours of golf. 

But that's not needfully a atrocious thing. Predictably, Augusta National has had to evolve, on with its partners, to this caller property of streaming. It's tricky, due to the fact that Augusta is celebrated for shaping the sum of this event. Sometimes, you wonderment if they privation you to spot it at all. I get it. 

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I volition say, though, that the instauration of Prime to this year's tourney has been much of a occurrence than I would've thought. 

But first, a speedy rundown of however to ticker play today, tomorrow, and, astir importantly, Sunday:

How to ticker Masters 2026 connected TV

So, that's fundamentally it successful a nutshell. Sure, that nutshell whitethorn beryllium huge, but it's inactive a nutshell. Or thing similar that. 

To ticker The Masters each time – from sun-up to sundown – you request a operation of Paramount+, Amazon Prime, and ESPN. That's for today. To ticker implicit the weekend, you tin spell up and driblet the Amazon subscription if you truthful choose, but prime up CBS. 

Again, it sounds daunting. "All you request is simply a laptop, a TV and a fewer subscriptions." OK. Sounds great! Thanks, Augusta, for letting america in!

Some folks, understandably so, are annoyed:

I get it. Too galore cooks successful the kitchen. That surely applies here. But, that's the property we unrecorded in. The streaming epoch is ruthless. It each seemed large connected insubstantial years ago, but present it's conscionable go exhausting. 

But, it's not each bad. For starters, the simplest reply to each of this is "Just usage The Masters app." Yes, it's a large app. It has everything. You tin ticker it all, successful 1 spot. Same with Masters.com. 

You tin spell determination close present and ticker the featured groups, Amen corner, and holes 4, 5 and 6. 

Obviously, that's not going to beryllium for everyone, though. It tin besides beryllium clunky, arsenic astir streaming apps are. That's conscionable the quality of the business. 

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A batch of folks besides don't recognize you tin enactment the Masters app connected your astute TVs, truthful they extremity up holding a telephone oregon watching their laptops each day. Not great. And yes, I'm talking astir the older folks. I don't deliberation that's immoderate large secret. 

I'll will, however, springiness Prime credit. Again, usually erstwhile a caller streaming work gets progressive successful a sport, it tin beryllium dicey. Netflix was crucified for a beauteous subpar MLB debut a fewer weeks ago. 

By each accounts, Prime has been coagulated truthful acold this week:

Again, not bad. I've seen these things spiral beauteous quickly. Prime seemed acceptable to roll, which makes consciousness fixed they've had the Thursday Night Football bundle for years now. 

Anyway, similar thing successful 2026, Masters sum has been met with mixed reviews each week. Does it consciousness similar we're getting yanked around? Sure. Has Prime been a bully summation to capable the spread betwixt the greeting and the main broadcast? Absolutely. 

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Some folks volition archer you to discontinue complaining, due to the fact that determination was a time, not excessively agelong ago, wherever you didn't get any Masters TV sum until 3 p.m. 

Obviously, that's nary longer the case. You tin ticker play each time agelong now. 

You conscionable person to enactment to find it. 

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