PGA Tour broadcasts just turned a different color.

On Thursday at the RBC Canadian Open, the Tour debuted a brand-new shot tracer on its telecasts it is calling “smart tracer” — an on-screen graphic that changes in color while shots are in the air based upon the ball’s most likely outcome.

The smart tracer will serve as an addition to the Tour’s popular “ drone tracer ” technology, which tracks shots in the air utilizing a moving drone camera. The drone tracer is fresh off an Emmy victory , and you can think of the smart tracer as an enhancement to the preexisting tech rather than a replacement for it, giving a viewers a deeper glimpse into the outcome of shots as they are unfolding in real-time.

The Tour’s broadcast partners — CBS, NBC and Golf Channel — have experimented increas

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