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A first overview of the new “Smart Tracer” technology of the PGA Tour.
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PGA Tour’s emissions have become a different color.
Thursday at the RBC Canadian Open, the tour made its debut on a whole new shooting tracer on his television which he calls “smart tracer” – a graphic on the screen that changes color while the photos are in the air according to the most likely result of the ball.
The intelligent tracer will serve as adding to the popular tour “drone tracer”Technology, which follows the shots in the air using a moving drone camera. The drone tracer is fresh out of a victory at the EmmyAnd you can consider the smart tracer as a reinforcement With pre -existing technology rather than replacing it for this, giving viewers a deeper overview of the results of the shots as they take place in real time.
The distribution partners of the tour – CBS, NBC and Golf Channel – have experienced more and more visual graphics based on probability in recent years, leaning in the tour of the tour AWS partnership and the expansion of artificial intelligence to trace the probabilities until the hundred millisecond.
In previous iterations of technology, viewers attended a narrowed “landing zone” graph that the ball ended on its destination. The intelligent tracer will differ from these previous experiences by providing colors associated with the result of a photo: green for a shot in the fairway, red for not in fairway and blue before probability can be determined. According to the tour, the new tracer will start to populate about 1.2 seconds after the impact and will be updated all a hundred milliseconds until the ball has landed. You can consult a video of it in action below.
Some viewers have pleaded against these improvements, arguing that they suppress part of the anticipation between the shooting which makes the visualization of golf convincing. Tracer technology, however, was one of the most popular developments in a omnipresent way in the past two decades of golf on television – coloring in everything, from the unthinkable corner of Rory McILroy in the water on the 13th at Masters in McILroy’s’s An equally unthinkable iron fired in the 15th green To set up a birdie that alters much.
The tour indicates that the new tracers are part of the deployment surrounding its Fan Forward initiative, a vast investigation into golf fans which has helped to inform many settings surrounding television and the experience of fans in 2025. In addition to the emissions of intelligent tracer, tours sequences and less putts focused on line lines.
The Smart Tracer Tech will be used throughout the weekend at the RBC Canadian Open and in a handful of tour events for the rest of the season: The Rocket Classic, Championship travelers and each events in the Fedex Cup qualifiers.