It seems to me that ABC has integrated some of the elements that have been successful for CBS' golf coverage. First, they have added life to their broadcast through wit and banter a la CBS' Gary McCord and David Feherty. This was achieved largely through the addition of former space smuggler turned golf commentator, Nick "Han" Faldo. Nothing against Curtis Strange, but Faldo is far more entertaining than his predecessor while exhibiting a similar genius-level golf IQ. Faldo manages to call it as he sees it with a healthy dose of dry British wit. Be sure to look out for his Bernhard Langer impressions. They are classic!
Second, ABC acknowledged the coolness of CBS' SwingVision with a copycat feature that they have dubbed "X-Mo." It is a super slow-motion feature like SwingVision. Unfortunately, it does nothing to one-up SwingVision. Why? X-Mo utilizes only one slow motion camera whereas SwingVision utilizes two - one to capture the full swing and one to capture a close-up of the club striking the ball. No doubt about it, SwingVision is still the king of slo-mo.
Anyway, here's a sample of X-Mo capturing the proper ball-striking with a sand wedge. Again, notice that the club strikes the ball first, then the ground.
7 comments:
Faldo is a desperately needed injection of personality into ABC, but frankly, a chimp playing with its own vomit would have been preferable to Azinger's awkward pauses and salacious Tiger worship.
Ohh that's killer! Wonder if they can super slow down Baseball Hits as well?
Wow...you take your golf pretty seriously!
I think that the Azinger/Faldo combo is pretty good actually.
About Zinger,he's a Nike Boy and you don't bad mouth King Nike only praise him ; )
Faldo and his wit are indeed a great addition ABC. I really don't like Hosts, like Tirico, who doesn't know much about golf hogging all the airtime - someone ought to tell him to put a sock in it! I always liked Zinger as a player but for some strange reason he comes across to me as kind of mean spirited fella. I think Faldo needs a better booth mate.
I love the above TOm G comment. How insightful, concerning recent events
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