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CT Award-Winning Performance at Dubai World Championship
The PGA European Golf tour's season-ending Dubai World Championship, previously known as The Race to Dubai, took place at Jumeirah Golf Estates' newly opened Earth course from 19 to 22 November. The event saw 60 players tee off for the finale which had a prize of US 7.5 million to be divided among the 15 winners, and had an exciting finish with Lee Westwood winning the championship.
European Tour Productions employed CT Dubai to provide and install a number of LED screens located around the course, as well as to include the Tour Television package that has accompanied the tournament throughout the world. For the 17th and 18th Greens CT installed a screen in each of 62sqm (10x8 panel) Lighthouse R7 LED whilst for the 1st Tee a 23sqm (6x5 panel) Lighthouse R7 LED screen was used. In addition to these a trailer-mounted 18sqm Barco Olite 612 LED Screen was positioned in the Championship Village where the main tent area was located. The trailer is one of two that CT had commissioned and built especially for this event and which was shipped out for this purpose.
A further 23sqm (6x5 panel) Lighthouse R7 LED screen was set up on the grass next to the Clubhouse Tennis Courts which were temporarily furnished and decked out as a hospitality area for private guests.
Each of the screens provided had a combination of sources from TTV, Leader-board Graphics and Flight Scope graphics as well as player profile information from a separate Laptop. All screens and TVs were fed by CT's IPTV distribution system via a sophisticated network of fibre and CAT5 throughout the Golf Course.
This Tournament Television System and its operation of the PGA European Tour has in fact earned CT the Gold Award for Event Technology at the Sports Business Awards dinner held recently in London. "Working under the Dubai heat and on a golf course where surfaces are not level is always a challenge," said Mark Woodhouse, project manager at Creative Technology Dubai: "Last minute changes also meant we had to lay down extra fibre cable around the course. But the entire show was a great success and the visitors enjoyed watching the golfing on the screens around the course and in the comfort of the hospitality lounges while enjoying a cool drink. We look forward to doing this again next year."
As part of the Tour package 56 Plasmas of various sizes where installed in the Hospitality Tent and the Media Centre and were fed with the IPTV signal. A feed was also sent to the temporary Club House and distributed to all the TVs and monitors within, to allow staff and members to watch. Prior to Sky and CTV going live at midday on each day, CT provided a 3 Camera Grass Valley PPU system for the 1st Tee to show live coverage of all the Players Teeing off, that was then mixed in with adverts and other media for the IPTV distribution system. The main TTV feed consisted of bespoke HTML pages commissioned by CT for ETP which interfaced with the scoring data provider. The live coverage was then combined and overlaid to show the live action and scoring information.
10th December 2009
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