Why TV Call-in Rules Viewers and Booth-Bound Commentators May Not Be Right

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Published: October 31, 2013

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The whole armchair rules officiating thing has hit a new high or low this year, and it's time for those at home to understand a few things about television versus reality.  I speak with some experience because I produced a golf television program, including instructional segments with guys you've heard of, like Fred Couples, Gil Morgan, Tom Purtzer and others, for 10 years.  I can tell you that what you see on TV is not always identical to real life. A lot depends on the camera angle and the distortion of the cameras. 

You already know that cameras make six-foot putts look like two- or three-foot putts. That should give you some idea of how different things are versus how they look on TV.  The television cameras compress reality.  They distort things.  They remove the look of break in greens.  They eliminate slopes and roll from fairways. They diminish height from tees to fairways and fairways to greens.    

To give you a prime example, when doing instructional on hitting from uphill or downhill slopes or side-hill lies, a location that would look good in reality would be too flat on camera.  We would have to find an exaggerated slope so it would look like a moderate slope for that kind of instruction.

Given the issues with compressing distance, removal of slopes and other distortion issues, if a camera does not have perfect angle, which it seldom has, then it is very hard to make some of these rulings from the comfort of the sofa.

Take Simon Dyson's situation, tamping down a spike mark with a ball (not with his putter as was erroneously reported in a couple places).   

Let's assume Dyson is smart enough to know that he can't touch the line of his intended putt with anything.  If he's not smart enough to know that, then he should be fined or something and it's likely he would have a history of that violation repeatedly on the European Tou...
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