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.