IBM will track every shot taken by every player at the PGA Tour’s Masters Tournament and use its artificial intelligence platform Watson to produce three-minute highlights of every round.
While IBM launched automated highlights for a select few players last year, the tech company will be expanding those capabilities (via an expanded partnership with the Masters broadcast partner CBS) to include all of the roughly 90 players at the 2019 Masters, which tees off on Thursday.
IBM analyzed roughly 4,000 shots at the 2018 Masters. It estimates that its system will end up tracking some 5,000 holes and around 20,000 shots this year.