Virtual Eye Powers Broadcast Graphics Across Golf Productions in Busy Three-Event Week

Deploying both onsite and remote crews, the company is providing calibrated-camera, drone, 3D images for tournaments in three countries

This week, Virtual Eye is supplying broadcast graphics across three concurrent golf broadcasts - PGA TOUR's Memorial Tournament in Dublin, U.S. Women's Open in Florida, and DP World Tour's KLM Open in Amsterdam - delivering 13 broadcast outputs alongside its online platforms.

The New Zealand-based company is fielding dedicated, tour-specific crews for each event, with operators in both onsite positions and remote studios in New Zealand, London, Dublin, and Ohio and at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA.

Virtual Eye's remote operation in New ZealandVirtual Eye is all over the Memorial with its VTWIN 3D Virtual Twin and VPLAY calibrated-camera AR output, the Emmy Award-winning Drone AR, a Minimap that extends from the constant leaderboard, and two calibrated robotic tee-tracer cameras. The Women's Open features the same VTWIN and VPLAY base products plus Drone AR and a single robotic tee camera. At the KLM Open, Virtual Eye is running VTWIN and VPLAY and debuting a live putt-prediction path available over any camera.

For the Women's US Open, Virtual Eye's Golf Engine drives the rendering for two digital platforms: RangeCast and ShotCast.At the Women's Open, Virtual Eye's Golf Engine drives the rendering for two digital platforms that are part of the USGA's expanded 2026 coverage. RangeCast presented by T-Mobile brings fans onto the practice range for the first time at a women's golf championship, delivering live and on-demand access to players' sessions from the T-Mobile Range with full shot trails, and championship statistics. ShotCast powered by Cisco returns with a next-generation experience offering dynamic shot trails, 3D hole imagery, green views, AI-powered shot commentary, and video highlights, available live or on-demand on the USGA App and at uswomensopen.com.

Virtual Eye's remote operation in New ZealandBen Taylor, EVP, production and commercial, Virtual Eye, attributes the company's ability to staff three events at once to a broadcast-operator training program run with Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand, where up to 10 students at a time learn to operate Virtual Eye's tools in a live broadcast environment.

The three-event week is becoming routine, he notes: most weeks involve at least two golf events, and three-event weeks are increasingly common.

Virtual Eye's remote operation in New ZealandThe busy week follows Virtual Eye's recognition in Major League Baseball and FOX Sports' recent Sports Emmy win for UmpCam AR, a back-to-back honor for the company. (Virtual Eye took home the 2025 George Wensel Technical Achievement Award for collaboration on the PGA TOUR's Live Drone AR.)

We are all extremely proud to be a part of it, says John Rendall, EVP, technology and innovation, Virtual Eye. It's incredible to go back-to-back, and we certainly want to acknowledge the great work of all the partners involved in both Emmys. We love collaborating with vendors and leagues, and this was a great example. The team's already thinking about next year.

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