LPGA’s elevated technology is an upgrade, but there’s plenty of room for so much more
The LPGA debuted enhanced production at the Fortinet Founders Cup. The quality of the new upgrades were great, but our writer was left wanting more
There’s been a lot of hype since the LPGA announced a partnership with FM that would help enhance its broadcasts this year, and those bells and whistles debuted Thursday on Golf Channel for the first round of the Fortinet Founders Cup. With hype comes expectation, and the broadcast delivered in quality of a few new things but not in quantity. There were more cameras and graphics.
There was and a drone and shot tracing. There just wasn’t enough of all of those things. All were promising first steps and a good foundation from which to build, but it was easy to leave still wanting more.
There were more cameras as advertised and different angles. There were two cameras on World No. 2 Nelly Korda—an overhead angle and a close-up angle—while putting on the 10th green at Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club in Menlo Park, Calif.
That’s the kind of thing seen on PGA Tour telecasts. It was nice to see that on the LPGA. The drones were the clear star of the show, and there will plenty of those awesome shots of the course and area over the next three days.
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