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a game of golf has been around for thousands of years and some of the major golf tournaments are well over 100 years old while the sport of golf hasn't changed much through history the technology surrounding the way we watch the sport as advanced dramatically from drone the golf course mapping technology the game of golf is involved into a high-tech high-stakes game where every shot is tracked and uploaded to the mothership known as the server track we went to the World Golf Championships at Harding Park in San Francisco over the weekend and got a first-hand look at how the PGA Tour uses a laser system to map tee shots and putz which is then uploaded to the commentators television viewers and the mass is following the tournament online shot link is a comprehensive scoring system which uses lasers to survey and map the distance of a golf shot on a mapped grid of a golf course once a golfer hits a shot a PGA Tour volunteer then uses the laser rangefinder to measure the distance of the ball from the tee this distance will then provide the distance to the pin for the next shot the technology is also used on the putting green when a shot comes into the green from the fairway PGA volunteers quickly laser the ball and get a measurement of the distance between the ball and the cup this data is then input into a small keypad computer system that is sent to the server truck and in almost real time shows up on the television screen and any device that a user may be following the tournament the shot link data has proven to be a vital part of the PGA Tour and not only helps viewers at home gain an understanding of how the golfers are doing but the golfers themselves use the shot link data to better their performance shotlink plays a vital role in the game of golf today and will continue for a long time to come as the game of golf continues to grow so will its presence online and the data will continue to be an integral part of how we interact with and consume the sport of golf