A NFL’s favorite TV toy is making its way to the open championship

Portrush, Northern Ireland – the 18th Grand in the open championship is known from a distance as a place of consequences. He approaches on the portrait royal in a cloud of Navy Blue, an excellent amphitheater of plastic sites, loud stairs and bright yellow scores tables that wrap the action inside.

But erected between a black wire tangles over the ancestor and 18th stands in the place of the largest Consequence in this year’s open championship: a small, remotely operated camera attached to a rotating lap. This is the newest Golf and Open (and bigger) golf innovation of Golf: Spidercam.

On Monday afternoon, R&A announced the 18th hole in Royal Portrush will be provided with Spidercam – a mobile television camera that promises to change the way tens of millions of golf fans view the action from the next hole in the last year. The camera will sit suspended above the 18th Green in Royal Portrait, attached to a four-point cable system that allows it to accumulate between different places to display new angles of undulation and shooting in the hole. This is believed to be the first time that technology will be used for a golf broadcast around the world.

American football fans will be familiar with technology when they see it while covering NBC this week. Spidercam is a synonym of the Popl “Skycam” of the NFL, which provides a view of the line and upper action from NFL games similar to that used by Crazy Video game series. A few years ago, technology without an increase in popularity after A foggy Super Bowl match Between New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons demanded the use of camera Sunday night. Fans enjoyed the camera so much NBC aired a whole Thursday evening football Game using Skycam later in the season, and the camera became a regular NFL broadcast match in the years that followed.

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“We have worked closely with European tournaments and their IMG production partners to invest in advanced broadcasting technology and believe that Spidercam will bring millions of fans a new perspective of action by Royal Portrush with extraordinary details and accessibility wherever they are in the world,” said the R&A leading trade officer.

On Tuesday morning in Portrad, the camera crews working for the production company responsible for open transmission on TV, European Tour ProductsIt can be followed by contaminating with the camera while the round players of the practice were cyclized in the 18th green. The camera descended from location to location at impressive speed, ensuring the minimum upper distraction, while cycling through various camera shooting.

Hope, both for R&A and for the American Open Broadcasting partners at NBC, is that the new camera corner will give the fans an increased dose of perspective about the latest Golf Championship. Unlike most other large Golf Championship armies, it can be difficult for the experienced camera crews to understand the full details of golf courses, which traditionally rely on the use of a pot -wrapped dunesape rather than defined soils such as water, sand and trees.

“Alongside our IMG production partners, we have a common vision with R&A to use the latest technologies to create a genuine immersion experience for millions of fans watching global transmission,” said Richard Bunn, Chief of Content and Income in the European Group Tour at the same release. “With new innovations such as Spidercam relying this year, the 153th open will bring fans closer to action than ever before.”

The four days of this year’s open championship will be available at NBC, with 43 hours of national television coverage waited during four days by Royal Portrush. This coverage will culminate with the so-called “Golf’s biggest walk”-the leader of the last round leader until the 18th Route in the Open Championship.

If you enjoy the look of that walk more than usual in 2025, you will know which camera to thank.