Hack It Out Golf The State of Broadcast Analytics
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Dec 1, 2025 The hosts delve into how professional golf broadcasts can enhance viewer understanding through analytics. They compare golf's slow adoption of advanced stats like strokes gained to how baseball and football engage fans. The conversation touches on integrating real-time data into broadcasts and how modern demands, like fantasy sports, could drive this change. They highlight the need for expert voices over ex-players to provide better insights, ultimately aiming to reshape how fans experience the game.
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Golf Lags Other Sports In Analytics
- Golf is far behind other major sports in using and broadcasting advanced analytics.
- Strokes Gained arrived decades after sabermetrics, so golf is still catching up.
Collect Tour Biomechanics Regularly
- Capture player biomechanics periodically with force plates and launch monitors to build useful datasets.
- Use markerless 3D tech like Optimotion to store player swing metrics and explain shot outcomes.
Pro Metrics Are Trickling Down
- Consumer tools like Arccos are letting amateurs measure their game using tour-style metrics.
- Advanced pro-level methods will eventually trickle down to everyday golfers.
