U.S. Open 2021: Here’s why NBC will use 88 cameras(!) on one hole at Torrey Pines

Golf broadcasting has traveled light years since the days of those “Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf” matches that began in the early 1960s, when they drove around a single camera on the back of a truck. Heck, the biz has come a long way since the last U.S. Open played at Torrey Pines in 2008. (…) On the sixth hole on the Torrey Pines South Course alone, there will be 88 cameras to capture the players’ swings. Let that sink in. Eighty-eight. On one tee box. That’s more cameras in one spot than NBC had on the entire grounds at Torrey Pines in 2008. The cameras, set up in a ring around the tee box, are part of the 4DReplay developed by Cisco that show a player’s swing at 360 degrees, and the video can be paused at 34 different junctures in the motion