This continues a series of posts on how our summers have evolved. Summer for many equals golf or at least watching it. This week The Olympic Club in San Francisco hosts the US Open. It last hosted it in 1998, and 3 times prior going back to 1955.
It is still a beast of a course, given its cliff like relief and proximity to the Pacific (as the picture below shows) and the mist and fog it regularly brings
Come to think of it, in 1998 we could not have seen it on Google Earth as the image below shows.
In 1987, we did not have Tiger Wood’s My Swing app which “allows golfers to capture video of their swing so they can analyze it, compare it with Woods and their friends and see their swing improve over time. Woods serves as a virtual coach, teaching golfers how to use swing-line analysis and providing tips on specific areas of improvement.”
In 1966, we did not have access to as IBM, the IT partner for the US Golf Association says “live Marquee Group coverage in near-HD quality. Updated for 2012 is a feature called Play Tracker, an interactive, data rich application with live scores, statistics for each player and the full field of competitors. It's a real-time visualization of the course indicating group/players' location, scores, stats which allows fans to follow the action, or their favorite player, like never before. The application will also feature a "Heat Map" of the course that indicates the holes playing easy or difficult at a glance. “
In 1955, we did not have the “ActionCam, “an overhead, cable-suspended camera system that provides compelling and unique camera angles. The camera will track between the 8th green, the golf course Clubhouse and the 18th green”. Back then we also did not have ESPN. Which means we did not have Chris Berman, who many golf fans wish stuck to football :)
Yes, not our father’s Golf Game.
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