The Oscars may have come and gone, but Awards Season isn’t over. And on Tuesday, the PGA Tour won an . . . Emmy?
Yep, an Emmy. And golf fans will agree it’s a well-deserved honor.
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The PGA Tour’s Live Drone AR won the George Wensel Technical Achievement Award at the 46th Sports Emmy Awards.
So what is the Live Drone AR exactly? Here’s how the PGA Tour describes it:
A TOUR-owned, patent-pending technology, Drone AR was developed through a collaborative effort between six partners — the PGA TOUR, Bolt6, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, Virtual Eye and Kaze Aerial Production — that came together in early 2024 with a shared vision to successfully track ball-in-motion data from a live moving drone on the PGA TOUR. Highlighting the skill of TOUR players and the challenge of iconic golf courses, the cutting-edge innovation allows fans to watch towering drives like never before, as the augmented reality experience combines live aerial video with real-time analytics.
And here’s a video showing what it looks like. Although, again, if you watch golf, you’ve certainly noticed these technological enhancements to tournament coverage on TV:
In the category, the tour beat out Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (Immersive Audio at Scale), NFL Live (StatusPro Visualizer—VR Technology), NHL Big City Greens Classic | Simpson’s Funday Football | NBA Dunk the Halls (Modified Character Scaling), and OptiMotion.
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
