Last tour Tee-off in Dubai

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CT Dubai provided and installed LED screens and the Tour Television package for the PGA European Golf tour’s season-ending Dubai World Championship.

The PGA European Golf Tour’s season-ending Dubai World Championship, the culmination of The Race to Dubai, saw 60 players tee off for the finale. Held at Jumeirah Golf Estates’ newly opened Earth course, and with the grand prize of US$7.5 million to be divided amongst 15 winners at stake, the final came to an exciting conclusion with Lee Westwood winning the championship.

European Tour Productions employed CT Dubai to supply and install the LED screens located around the course and also to provide the Tournament Television package that has accompanied the European Tour.

For the 17th and 18th greens Creative Technology installed 62sqm (10x8 panel) Lighthouse R7 LED screens, with a 23sqm (6x5 panel) Lighthouse R7 LED screen used for the 1st tee.

A further 23sqm (6x5 panel) Lighthouse R7 LED screen was positioned next to the Clubhouse Tennis Courts that were temporarily furnished and decked as a hospitality area, and a trailer-mounted 18sqm Barco Olite 612 LED screen was sited in the Championship Village where the main tent area was located. All CT’s screens featured a combination of sources from Tournament Television, Leader-board Graphics and Flight Scope graphics, in addition to showing player profile information.

As part of the Tournament package CT also provided 56 high definition LCD televisions of various sizes, installed and situated in the Hospitality Units and Media Centre. CT’s HD Tournament Television system, utilising the award winning IPTV distribution system via a sophisticated network of fibre and CAT5, fed the televisions and also the screens around the course, with a further feed sent to the Club House and distributed to the televisions and monitors therein.

The main TTV feed consisted of bespoke HTML pages commissioned by CT for European Tour Productions that interfaced with the scoring data provider. The live coverage was then combined and overlaid to show the live action and scoring information.

With Sky and CTV broadcasting live from midday on each day of the competition, CT provided a three Camera Grass Valley PPU system situated on the 1st Tee to show live coverage of the competitors teeing off in the mornings. This was mixed with advertising and other media for the IPTV distribution system.

“Working under the Dubai heat on a particularly sandy site was always going to be a challenge,” remarked Mark Woodhouse, Project Manager at Creative Technology Dubai. “Last minute changes meant we had to lay down extra fiber cable around the course, but the project was a great success with visitors and press enjoying watching the golf on screens both around the course and in the comfort of the hospitality lounges. We look forward to doing this again next year.”