Generally speaking, if you’re a high-level golfer playing your final stroke-play round of the week on Thursday morning, something has gone very wrong.

As anyone who’s teed it up in competition knows, if your final round in a competition arrives on a Thursday morning, that very likely means you’re headed for a WD, or worse, a DQ.

Unless, of course, you’re playing in this year’s college golf national championships. And unless your team has a religious exemption precluding you from competing in Sunday’s final round.

That turns out to be the scene at this year’s NCAA golf national championship, where the BYU Cougars played their Sunday stroke play round on Thursday morning, hours before any other team had teed off to begin their national championship.

The story here begins with the schedule for this year’s national championship, which is being contested over six days at the Omni La Costa resort in Carlsbad, Calif. The way the competition works is fairly simple: individual competitors on the top 30 teams (plus six individual qualifiers) play in a 72-hole stroke play competition. The low scorer at the end of that competition is the NCAA individual champion, while the low eight teams advance into a bracket-style match play competition to determine the team champion.

The nature of this competition (and the complexity of the schedule) means the rounds will take place from Friday, May 29 through Wednesday, June 3. Assuming all goes according to plan, teams will play a competition round every single day.

That’s no issue for 29 of the teams in this year’s national championship field, but it is a big issue for one of them: BYU. The Cougs are from an overwhelmingly Mormon university (more than 98 percent of the student body), and Sunday is a sacred day of the week in the Mormon faith, a day in which practitioners are expected to worship and rest.

As such, BYU has made it so that its athletics programs only play in competitions on six days of the week, from Monday to Saturday, navigating schedules to ensure that all events occur on days other than the Sabbath.

For the golf team, that put this year’s national championship schedule in a bit of a pickle. Either the team would have to withdraw from the competition, refusing to play on the day of rest, or they would have to violate their religious obligations in order to compete in the national championship.

Instead, the team appealed to the NCAA for an exemption, seeking to play the additional stroke play round at another time and allowing the team to compete in the tournament. The NCAA complied, and so the Cougars went off early on Thursday morning to play their Sunday round at the national championship, alone, while the remainder of the field got ready for round 1.

By all accounts, things went pretty well on Thursday for BYU, which was ranked 22nd heading into the championship. The Cougars shot a team score of one under, which will be officially posted when the rest of the teams play their Sunday rounds. On Friday, playing with the rest of the field, BYU posted a team score of eight over par.

The final round of the 2026 Augusta National Women’s Amateur goes down Saturday morning, April 4, at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. Here’s everything you need to know to watch the tournament on Saturday, including full Augusta National Women’s Amateur TV coverage, streaming info and Round 3 tee times.

How to watch ANWA on Saturday

Heading into the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, 17-year-old Asterisk Talley has some unfinished business to accomplish.

One year ago, the star American amateur came up one shot short of the ANWA title, despite shooting a final-round 68 at the home of the Masters. This year is a different story.

Talley cruised through 36 holes at Champions Retreat on Wednesday and Thursday, making zero bogeys and finishing with a one-shot lead.

Her 11-under total through two rounds matches her total score at last year’s ANWA. Now, the final round at Augusta National is the only thing that stands between her and history. Meja Örtengren and Maria Jose Marin are tied for second at 10 under.

After the full field played a practice round on Friday at Augusta National, the 32 players who made the cut will compete at Augusta National Golf Club over 18 holes to determine this year’s champion.

You can watch the final round of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on TV via NBC, which will air coverage beginning on Saturday at 12 p.m. ET. You can also watch a live simulcast NBC’s TV coverage on ANWA.com or Peacock.

Below you will find everything you need to know to watch the final round of the 2026 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

How to watch on TV Saturday

NBC will provide final-round TV coverage of the 2026 Augusta National Women’s Amateur from 12-3 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 4.

How to stream online Saturday

You can stream the final round of the 2026 Augusta National Women’s Amateur via ANWA.com and Peacock, which will offer a live simulcast of NBC’s Saturday TV coverage starting at 12 p.m. ET.

2026 Augusta National Women’s Amateur Round 3 tee times for Saturday (ET)

Tee No. 1

8:20 a.m. – Patience Rhodes, Yurina Hiroyoshi
8:30 a.m. – Macy Pate, Catherine Park
8:40 a.m. – Anna Davis, Emily Odwin
8:50 a.m. – Yujie Liu, Dianna Lee
9:00 a.m. – Aphrodite Deng, Achiraya Sriwong
9:10 a.m. – Seojin Park, Elise Lee
9:20 a.m. – Reagan Zibilski, Farah O’Keefe
9:30 a.m. – Paula Martin Sampedro, Aira Nagasawa
9:50 a.m. – Yunseo Yang, Ava Merrill
10:00 a.m. – Vanessa Borovilos, Kiara Romero
10:10 a.m. – Chloe Kovelesky, Raegan Denton
10:20 a.m. – Gyubeen Kim, Amelie Zalsman
10:30 a.m. – Soomin Oh, Arianna Lau
10:40 a.m. – Avery Weed, Lauren Kim
10:50 a.m. – Maria Jose Marin, Andrea Revuelta
11:00 a.m. – Asterisk Talley, Meja Örtengren