Virtual golf shots coming soon to studioCourtesy
USA Today
(January 8, 2010) The latest twist in virtual TV technology will give on-air analysts a terrific tool to second-guess. In a studio, they'll be able to virtually retake the pro golfers' actual shots to show how those shots should have been played.
The Golf Channel will use a 23-by-13-foot screen to virtually project actual tournament fairways. Dan Overleese, GC vice president/operations, says that starting in February, the network hopes to have virtual views of the 18th holes of PGA Tour events — he says there'll also be simulations of all 18 holes at Pebble Beach and the British Open at St. Andrews — that draw on technology from the Maumee, Ohio-based firm aboutGolf. While virtual technology has been used to show flyovers of courses and identify where shots landed, Overleese says "a cool thing about what we could do is drop the ball and play from anywhere on the hole." And let an announcer swing away at the studio screen to show how he'd have played a shot differently. But is it fair to give them such mulligans in a climate-controlled studio for a real-life shot hit into, say, St. Andrews gusts or Pebble Beach rainstorms? Says Overleese: "We can make the simulator rain, get windy — even snow." _______________________
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