- More than 40 hours of live coverage over four days begins Thursday, August 29, at approximately 8 a.m. ET
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NORTON, Mass., August 14, 2024 – ESPN+ will stream featured group coverage of the FM Championship, an event in its inaugural year on the LPGA tour. Fans will be able to tune in to more than 40 hours of live coverage of the featured groups from approximately 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, August 29, and Friday, August 30. Coverage will continue into the weekend from approximately 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, August 31, and from approximately 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, September 1.
The FM Championship on ESPN+ will feature a dedicated featured groups feed, showcasing two featured groups from both the morning and afternoon waves on each tournament day. Fans can expect in-depth commentary and analysis from renowned hosts and analysts, as players vie for the FM Championship title and one of the season’s largest LPGA Tour purses of $3.8 million. Will Haskett will headline the coverage alongside analyst Amanda Blumenhurst with on-course reports and live player interviews by Amy Rogers and LPGA Tour athlete Emma Talley.
The FM Championship on ESPN+ is part of a two-year deal announced in November 2023 in which ESPN+ is presenting live featured group coverage of eight LPGA Tour tournaments through the 2025 season. Following The Chevron Championship and the Cognizant Founders Cup, the FM Championship is the third of four LPGA Tour events on ESPN+ this season. The CME Group Tour Championship in November will round out this year’s LPGA Tour featured group coverage on ESPN+.
This latest deal continues a longstanding relationship between the LPGA Tour and ESPN.
- In 2022, ESPN+ streamed the Kroger Queen City Championship presented by P&G and the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship presented by P&G.
- ESPN televised a schedule of regular LPGA Tour events from 1979-2009, and ABC covered the CME Group Tour Championship from 2015-2018.
- ESPN aired the first two rounds of the AIG British Open from 1982-2002 and all four rounds from 2010-2015, as well as the first two rounds of the U.S. Women’s Open from 1982-2014.
- The first golf ever televised on ESPN was the LPGA Sahara Open on Sept. 8, 1979, ESPN’s second day on air.
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