The 10 best weekends to watch golf in 2025

The best golf weekends are the ones where a single event commands the spotlight. Every two years, the Ryder Cup supersedes the Masters on the viewing scale. The wild swings of match play and partner golf are always more compelling than stroke play. The three-day competition at Bethpage Black in Farmingdale, N.Y., will start out Friday on USA Network and move to NBC on the weekend as things heat up. We can't wait.

Golfers like to debate which is the best men's major, but none of them bring the golf world together like the 2025 Masters at Augusta National. Being in April gives it the perfect stage all its own - it's the unofficial start to the golf season in America. The azaleas are blooming and every golfer north of the Mason-Dixon line is gearing up in anticipation of a great season on the course. All of its traditions - the green jacket, Amen Corner, the pimento cheese sandwiches, the Champions Dinner - tie generations of legendary golfers together.

Rain. Wind. Bad bounces. Knee-high fescue. Nothing beats watching the best players in the world get humbled by the golf gods and Mother Nature at The Open. This year's championship is especially intriguing given that it returns to Royal Portrush's Dunluce links where Irishman Shane Lowry won in 2019. The home crowd will be rooting for four-time major champ and Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, who missed the cut last time. NBC, Peacock and USA Network will tag-team the coverage. In a Pacific Coast time slot later in the day, golfers can stick with Golf Channel after Live From for the PGA Tour's opposite field event, the Barracuda Championship at the Tahoe Mountain Club's Old Greenwood in Truckee, Calif., near Lake Tahoe.

The U.S. Open is a Father's Day tradition for many golf households in America. Whether that's playing golf, watching golf or both, it's a way to forge stronger family bonds. Whenever The U.S. Open goes to one of the pantheons of the game like Oakmont Country Club in Pennsylvania, the pressure to win only builds. NBC, USA and Peacock will provide groundbreaking coverage, along with GOLF Channel's popular Live From pre- and post-game analysis.

For more, tune into the Meijer LPGA Classic for Simply Give at Michigan's Blythefield Country Club on Golf Channel for most of the weekend with the final round on CBS.

How could an amateur exhibition upstage a major championship on our list? We don't know about you, but we watch golf for the courses as much as, if not more than who's playing. Scheduling the 2025 Walker Cup at the Cypress Point Club was a coup for the United States Golf Association. TV drone shots covering the coastal holes while America's brightest young players take on Great Britian and Ireland's best will be pretty epic. It's yet to be announced how the NBC family of networks (USA, NBC, Peacock, GOLF Channel) will cover the matches, so stay tuned on more details.

If amateur golf doesn't get your competitive juices flowing, watching the Amgen Irish Open at The K Club should help. The K Club is a legendary venue as a past Ryder Cup host, and the Irish Open usually has enough star power to make it a top-tier DP World Tour event on GOLF Channel.

May brings the only weekend of the year with two major championship held at the same time - the PGA Championship and the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. Holding the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, N.C., doesn't necessarily move the needle for us, other than the fact that GolfPass co-founder Rory McIlroy plays so well there every time he tees it up during the regular season. Maybe he can finally break his decade-long major drought. CBS and ESPN will televise the action. Golf Channel will broadcast the Regions Tradition, which is being held at Greystone Golf & Country Club in Alabama for the ninth consecutive year.

The PLAYERS Championship - sometimes referred to as golf's fifth major - delivers the drama time and again thanks to the theatrics of the PLAYERS Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, coupled with one of the strongest fields of the year. NBC and Golf Channel team up to bring all the live action from Pete Dye's torture chamber.

There are a handful of premier PGA TOUR events worth viewing every year. Iconic venues like TPC Scottsdale (WM Phoenix Open), Bay Hill Club & Lodge (Arnold Palmer Invitational) and Muirfield Village (The Memorial) come to mind.

But what bumps The Memorial Tournament presented by Workday in Dublin, Ohio, onto our list - and keeps others off - is sharing the weekend with the 2025 U.S. Women's Open. When the birdie putts quit dropping on CBS at The Memorial, golf fans can immediately flip to USA/NBC/Peacock to watch the women. The U.S. Women's Open heads to Erin Hills, the brawny Wisconsin layout that last hosted the 2017 U.S. Open won by Brooks Koepka. How tough and long will the USGA set up the course? That's what inquiring minds want to know.

Golf Channel will also carry coverage of the Principal Charity Classic at the Langford & Moreau-designed Wakonda Club in Des Moines, Iowa, on the PGA TOUR Champions as well.

The height (and heat) of summer brings the busiest TV viewing calendar for golfers. While it might be tempting to be out on the course instead of sitting on the couch, you will be missing some pretty cool opportunities to watch compelling golf.

The men are overseas at the Genesis Scottish Open, a co-hosted DP World Tour and PGA Tour event held at The Renaissance Club since 2019. It will be televised by Golf Channel with CBS taking over on the weekend. The PGA Tour Champions also returns to a familiar place, En-Joie Golf Club, for the DICK'S Open on Golf Channel. The LPGA Tour's best will compete on Golf Channel for a major championship at the Amundi Evian Championship in France. The popularity of the three-day American Century Championship only continues to grow as more and more sports heroes like Jason and Travis Kelsey and the Curry family tee it up at Edgewood Tahoe on the shores of Lake Tahoe. The party vibe and lakeside scenery ooze through the screen, taking NBC viewers to one of the most scenic places in America.

The Tour Championship weekend at the renovated East Lake in Atlanta edges out July 24-27 (which is headlined by the 3M Open, the Senior Open at Sunningdale's magnificent Old Course and the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open at Dundonald) for our final spot.
Some years the Tour Championship's funky scoring system leads to a clunker of a Sunday finish; other times we get Rory McIlroy battling Scottie Scheffler down to the final hole (2022) on NBC.

Golf Channel adds complementary coverage of four tournaments to keep golf fans busy - The Ally Challenge on the PGA TOUR Champions at the historic Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc, Mich.; the DP World Tour's Betfred British Masters at The Belfry; the U.S. Senior Women's Open at San Diego Country Club (it's also on Peacock) and the LPGA Tour's CPKC Women’s Open at Mississaugua Golf & Country Club in Canada. That's a lot of golf.