You may still not be a golf fan, but technology has made the broadcasts as inviting as ever

Features such as slope-reading has helped grow golf broadcasting

To many, golf will never provide the blood-pumping, adrenaline-producing action and drama that sports such as Football, Basketball, and Hockey provide. For one, there is no contact, no head-to-head action, and no rush that comes with those team sports. However, for me, it is an edge-of-the-seat, nail-biting experience that comes from pressure performance and drawn-out tension that can only come from a late Sunday charge or 72nd hole magic.

Thanks to advances in technology, golf coverage is getting closer to bringing that feeling to all.

Golf broadcasts have come a long way over the years. There was a time when watching a golf tournament, if you could find it on TV, could be a boring as most people think. Those days consisted of just a few cameras positioned at the tees and greens while two individuals (one American and one Englishman) gave a detail of what just happened on the shot. Watch a shot, talk about it, repeat.

Exciting right?

If that is your impression of a golf telecast today, I encourage you to check out the coverage of golf today. Thanks to Shot-Tracer, we can see where the shot is flying in real time. In addition, detailed sensors give us information on the ball speed, angle, and clubhead speed making it even easier to see how much slower than the pros we are. However, even those tools are outdated at this point.

Today's action is even better. Perfect putt lines are now shown in real-time, and we can know the green speed and slope better than any player on the green. If they hit a poor putt, we know it long-before the player takes off running to stop it from going down the hill (Sorry Phil...). To make the experience even more inclusive, the USGA used in-hole microphones at the U.S. Open giving us insights in to the thoughts of some of the greatest and more precision athletes in the world. We may not have been in Long Island, but we certainly were given the change to experience it.

Golf coverage has come a long way making it more inclusive, entertaining, and exciting than it has ever been before. It may not have made the sport as crazy as hockey, but it coverage has certainly given us the adrenaline-filled moments not often seen in a sport where the opponent is Mother Nature,