Patent ID: 8638367

Claim:
A synthesized television image golf green highlight system for golf tournament rounds, comprising: one or more cameras capturing real time video of golfers on or adjacent a golf green, a processor for storing topographical data for one or more golf greens on an associated golf course from data obtained prior to the tournament round, said processor also storing data on the location of the hole or holes on the one or more golf greens from data obtained prior to the tournament round, said processor combining the topographical data for one hole with data on the location of the hole for the same hole, said processor determining maximum fall line direction directly adjacent the hole relative to the topographics adjacent to the one hole and developing graphics therefrom, generating an image of the golf green from a green adjacent camera in real time, and combining the camera generated image with the graphics from the maximum fall line direction relative to the topographics without any real time data other than camera video to produce an on-screen image from the graphics directly adjacent the hole of the hole maximum fall line direction without any ball position data.