| Service | Price/mo | Has Golf Channel? |
|---|---|---|
| Philo | $25.00 | No |
| Sling Blue | $45.99 | No |
| Sling Orange | $45.99 | No |
| DirecTV Stream | $82.99 | Yes |
| YouTube TV | $82.99 | Yes |
| Fubo | $89.00 | No |
| Hulu + Live TV | $89.99 | Yes |
Prices and lineups as of 2026-07-19. Verify on the provider's own page before you sign up; carriage and pricing change often and can vary by zip code.
Golf Channel used to be part of NBCUniversal, the same corporate family as NBC and Bravo. On 2026-01-01, Comcast spun most of its cable networks, including Golf Channel, CNBC, MSNBC, USA Network, Syfy, and E!, into a new standalone company called Versant. Fubo and NBCUniversal fought a separate, unrelated carriage dispute that pulled NBC, Telemundo, and Bravo off Fubo starting November 2025, and settled it with a new deal in June 2026.
The Versant channels were not part of that settlement. Fubo's own June 2026 announcement named the NBCUniversal channels coming back and left Golf Channel and its Versant siblings off the list entirely. As of 2026-07-19, Golf Channel is still not on Fubo, and there is no announced timeline for a separate Versant-Fubo deal. If you're on Fubo today and Golf Channel matters to your household, don't expect it back on the current lineup.
Golf Channel isn't in either Sling base plan, and it isn't in every version of Sling's sports add-on either. Sling sells Sports Extra in three flavors: an Orange-tier pack, a Blue-tier pack, and a combined Orange & Blue pack. Only the Blue-tier Sports Extra ($11/mo on top of Sling Blue's $45.99/mo) and the combined pack ($15/mo on top of the $60.99-$65.99/mo Orange & Blue combo) include Golf Channel. The Orange-tier Sports Extra add-on, built around ESPN-family channels instead, skips it.
That makes Sling Blue plus Sports Extra a real option at $56.99/mo total, but only if you pick the right add-on tier. Buying Sling Orange and adding its Sports Extra pack, expecting Golf Channel to show up, is the mistake to avoid.
Golf Channel's schedule runs on the PGA Tour calendar. During most PGA Tour weeks, Golf Channel airs early-round coverage on Thursday and Friday afternoons, then early weekend windows on Saturday and Sunday before CBS or another network takes over the final hours of weekend coverage. Beyond tournament windows, the channel fills out its schedule with instruction programming and studio golf shows.
Golf Channel is not a channel that trades hands often between services, and its Versant ownership doesn't change what airs on it day to day, only which streaming services carry it.
A free antenna will never carry Golf Channel, at any price, from any provider. It's a cable-only sports network with no over-the-air spectrum presence. What an antenna does get you free in most markets: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, and The CW, and CBS specifically does carry PGA Tour weekend windows as broadcast network coverage, separate from Golf Channel's cable-only early-round coverage. See how antennas actually work for the indoor/attic/roof distinction before you buy one.
Check the full monthly cost comparison to see how YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, or a Sling Blue plus Sports Extra bundle stacks up against a typical cable bill.
Sling Blue plus Sports Extra, at $56.99/mo, is the cheapest direct path to Golf Channel if it's close to the only sports channel your household needs and you don't also want ESPN. YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, tied at $82.99/mo, get you Golf Channel alongside a full channel lineup, locals in most markets, and (on YouTube TV) ESPN in the base plan, at a higher monthly cost.
Fubo is off the table entirely right now regardless of price, and Sling Orange alone, even with its own Sports Extra add-on, won't get you there either. Check the rest of your household's must-have channels against our channel finder before deciding, since Golf Channel rarely stands alone as the single deciding factor.
Golf Channel isn't the only channel caught in the Versant-Fubo gap. OurCNBC andMSNBC pages cover two more Versant-owned channels with the identical story: spun out of NBCUniversal on 2026-01-01, left out of Fubo's June 2026 NBCUniversal settlement, and still off Fubo as of 2026-07-19. If your household is comparing several of these at once, the Fubo answer is the same across all of them: no, not yet, and there's no announced date for that to change.