How to watch and stream the 2026 Masters Day 1 live for free

The 2026 PGA Tour begins with the first major of the year: It’s time for The Masters.

The tournament begins today and will continue through Sunday, April 12, when the winner of the 90th annual tournament will be awarded his customary green jacket.

It’s all going down, as it does every year, at the Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia.

It’s been a year since Rory McIlroy completed a career grand slam with his first win at The Masters. McIlroy is back this year to defend his title, but he recently pulled out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational with back spasms. The defending champ played his most recent tournament, The Players, through the back injury and finished tied for 46th.

Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and two-time Masters champion Scottie Scheffler are among the favorites to win the green jacket this year.

There are a bunch of different options when it comes to streaming this year’s Masters tournament, so we broke it down for you below. Keep reading for TV schedules, streaming schedules and more for the first round of The Masters 2026.

When is The Masters 2026?

The Masters begin today, April 9, and end on April 12.

How to watch The Masters for free

While The Masters will air across the a few different networks and streaming services, you likely won’t need all of them to tune in to as much of The Masters as you’d like.

If you’re a cord-cutter without cable, here’s the combo we recommend: DIRECTV and Prime Video, both of which you can try for free.

DIRECTV’s Choice plan ($59.99 for your first month with a five-day free trial) includes access to the ESPN Unlimited app, where featured groups will stream throughout the day. The service will also have its own live streams of the featured groups. Of course, it also includes ESPN, where you can stream the TV coverage beginning at 3 p.m. ET.

Prime Video will present its first-ever coverage of The Masters today, in the form of early featured group coverage and a two-hour broadcast beginning at 1 p.m. ET. If you aren’t already an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can get your first 30 days of Prime Video completely free.

Masters 2026 TV schedule for April 9

The Masters 2026 streaming schedule for April 9

In addition to the afternoon and evening coverage listed above, The Masters will air morning coverage across a handful of streaming services. All times listed below are in ET.

• Masters On the Range: 8:30-10-30 a.m. (Paramount+)
• Featured Groups: 9:15 a.m.-7:30 p.m. (Paramount+, Prime Video, ESPN App, DIRECTV)
• Featured Holes (4, 5 and 6): 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (ESPN App)
• Featured Holes (Amen Corner, 11, 12 and 13): 10:45 a.m.-6 p.m. (Paramount+, Prime Video, ESPN App, DIRECTV)
• Featured Holes (15 and 16): 11:45 a.m.-7 p.m. (Paramount+, Prime Video, ESPN App, DIRECTV)

The Masters tee times — Round 1

• 7:40 a.m. – John Keefer, Haotong Li
• 7:50 a.m. – Naoyuki Kataoka, Max Homa, Carlos Ortiz
• 8:02 a.m. – José María Olazábal, Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Aldrich Potgieter
• 8:14 a.m. – Angel Cabrera, Sami Valimaki, Jackson Herrington (A)
• 8:26 a.m. – Charl Schwartzel, Max Greyserman, Ryan Fox
• 8:38 a.m. – Vijay Singh, Matt McCarty, Rasmus Højgaard
• 8:50 a.m. – Kurt Kitayama, Kristoffer Reitan, Casey Jarvis
• 9:02 a.m. – Bubba Watson, Nicolas Echavarria, Brandon Holtz (A)
• 9:19 a.m. – Cameron Smith, Sam Burns, Jake Knapp
• 9:31 a.m. – Keegan Bradley, Ryan Gerard, Nick Taylor
• 9:43 a.m. – Dustin Johnson, Shane Lowry, Jason Day
• 9:55 a.m. – Patrick Reed, Tommy Fleetwood, Akshay Bhatia
• 10:07 a.m. – Bryson DeChambeau, Matt Fitzpatrick, Xander Schauffele
• 10:19 a.m. – Hideki Matsuyama, Collin Morikawa, Russell Henley
• 10:31 a.m. – Rory McIlroy, Cameron Young, Mason Howell (A)
• 10:43 a.m. – Viktor Hovland, Patrick Cantlay, Alex Noren
• 11:03 a.m. – Samuel Stevens, Sungjae Im
• 11:15 a.m. – Andrew Novak, Tom McKibbin, Brian Campbell
• 11:27 a.m. – Mike Weir, Wyndham Clark, Mateo Pulcini (A)
• 11:39 a.m. – Zach Johnson, Michael Kim, Nicolai Højgaard
• 11:51 a.m. – Danny Willett, Davis Riley, Ethan Fang (A)
• 12:03 p.m. – Adam Scott, Daniel Berger, Brian Harman
• 12:15 p.m. – Fred Couples, Min Woo Lee, Fifa Laopakdee (A)
• 12:27 p.m. – Sergio Garcia, Aaron Rai, Jacob Bridgeman
• 12:44 p.m. – Harry Hall, Corey Conners, Michael Brennan
• 12:56 p.m. – J.J. Spaun, Maverick McNealy, Tyrrell Hatton
• 1:08 p.m. – Jon Rahm, Chris Gotterup, Ludvig Åberg
• 1:20 p.m. – Jordan Spieth, Justin Rose, Brooks Koepka
• 1:32 p.m. – Sepp Straka, Ben Griffin, Justin Thomas
• 1:44 p.m. – Scottie Scheffler, Robert MacIntyre, Gary Woodland
• 1:56 p.m. – Harris English, Marco Penge, Si Woo Kim

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