Tag: Drones

Jon Rahm goes off on drones at LIV Golf Nashville: ‘These f—–g drones every time’

Drones, but louder.

Drones have become an integral part of television’s coverage of professional golf.

Whether at a major championship or week-to-week stop, drones can be seen — and heard — buzzing around golf courses across the country every week. While they provide some incredible shots and give a new perspective of courses that have never been seen before, they also have some drawbacks because of the noise.

Enter LIV Golf’s Jon Rahm, who Sunday was three shots back of Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton at LIV Golf Nashville at The Grove when he was on the par-4 sixth tee. Rahm’s tee shot sailed right into the water hazard, and before his ball reached his apex, he turned around and looked into the sky in disgust.

“Every tournament. It’s f—–g incredible. Right on my backswing. These f—–g drones every time,” the microphones caught the two-time major champion saying.

Drones, but louder.

Rahm would go on to make double, the worst score on the hole of the golfers who had completed the hole by that time (remember, LIV Golf events begin with a shotgun start).

The Spaniard has given some great hot mic moments before, but he also has a point about drones moving right in the middle of his swing. It happens more often than you think, and given Rahm’s fiery competitiveness, it’s no surprise he’s the one to let us know what likely many other professional golfers think about drones.

Robert MacIntyre didn’t like the buzzing of the CBS drone one bit and let them know at 2024 RBC Canadian Open

The big wasp in the sky failed to sting MacIntyre on Sunday.

HAMILTON, Ontario – Robert MacIntyre doesn’t like drones.

“If it didn’t go away, I was going to start throwing my clubs at it,” he said. “That’s how annoyed I was getting.”

During Sunday’s final round of the RBC Canadian Open, the CBS Sports drone following his pairing bothered him to end.

It had started on Saturday on the 18th hole but it began in earnest on the drivable par-4 fifth hole when the crowd went silent.

“It’s a big wasp. I asked ’em to get rid of it. They did,” he explained. “Next hole, I’m in the bunker, and sure enough everyone’s silent and all I hear is this buzzing again. I look up and here it is. And, I don’t know, one of the guys must have been getting sick of me. I just kept turning to him because I knew he was the man to go to when that drone starts annoying me because yesterday on 18 it was the same guy. And he just radioed, ‘Get that drone out of here.’”

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MacIntyre could be heard saying, “I told you once, I’m not going to tell you again.”

On the CBS broadcast, Jim Nantz, Dottie Pepper, who was following the group, and Trevor Immelman understood that it was disturbing MacIntyre but pushed back that drones are now part of the coverage. A request for a comment from CBS Sports wasn’t answered.

“They were horrible,” MacIntyre’s father, Dougie, who served as his caddie this week, said. “He was getting a wee bit agitated. It takes your concentration. In the back of the head you’re thinking about the buzzing so he called the rules official over.”

That occurred at the ninth fairway when MacIntyre was preparing to hit a wedge to the green.

“All I can hear is this drone again, and I had had enough at that point. Rules official from the R&A was just beside us, and I brought her over, and I said, ‘Look, this drone needs to get out of here. I’ve said it three times now. The drone is annoying me, the drone’s putting me off, it’s too close.’ I mean, it’s easier when the blimps up there, but it’s obviously the weather and stuff and it’s just, I had a job to do, and anything that was getting in my way was getting told to get out of the way. I was focused today and that drone was doing my head, and so I told it to get away.”

MacIntyre’s father said he helped calm down his son, who focused on the task at hand and earned his first Tour title.

“He gets grumpy. That’s his downfall. When he gets grumpy and mad at himself the game goes. He knows it himself,” Dougie said.

But the big wasp in the sky failed to sting MacIntyre on Sunday.

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Watch this incredible footage captured from a drone flying through a bowling alley

This is so incredible. Wow.

First of all, I’m almost certain that headline sounds wild. A drone? Flying through a bowling alley? What?

There are so many questions that come with that. Why would a drone be flying through a bowling alley? What is this for? And, really, why are the details of a bowling alley even remotely interesting enough for a drone to fly through?

And, honestly, I don’t have the complete answers to these questions for you because I am still at a loss for how incredible this video is. It’s just spectacular. It’s legitimately top-notch cinema.

The only way to properly understand it is to actually see it, so take a look.

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Masters: Drones at Augusta National delivering never-before-seen shots

The Masters is always a visual spectacle and this first-ever November Masters is no different. The reds, yellows and oranges of the changing leaves provide an amazing background to the dominant green at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, …

The Masters is always a visual spectacle and this first-ever November Masters is no different.

The reds, yellows and oranges of the changing leaves provide an amazing background to the dominant green at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

What’s different this year is a new way to see the course from way up high, courtesy of some amazing drone aerial shots.

“Thanks to our friends at CBS Sports, we will debut a few technologies new to Augusta National, including a fly cam on the 16th hole and two drones providing sweeping aerial views never before seen during live Masters telecasts,” Augusta National Golf Club Chairman Fred T. Ridley said during his annual news conference on Wednesday.

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Some of these shots really are stunning and golf fans are taking notice.

About those fly cams, here’s one on the 16th hole.

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A random drone over Target Field forced a delay in the Pirates-Twins game

The 2020 MLB season continues to be weird.

The 2020 MLB season has already been far from typical. There have been mass postponements due to team-wide coronavirus outbreaks in what was supposed to be a 60-game season. There’s a universal DH now, runners on second base to start extra inning and doubleheaders are seven-inning games. Again, it’s different.

Oh, and, apparently, drone delays are a thing.

During Tuesday’s matinee game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Minnesota Twins at Target Field, players were called to their dugouts when the umpires noticed a random drone flying over the stadium.

It’s unclear who was controlling this drone, but the game was stopped and went into a drone delay out of an abundance of caution for the players. After all, ask Trevor Bauer about the dangers of drones.

That delay lasted about four minutes, so it wasn’t exactly a prolonged stoppage.

But this 2020 MLB continues to be weird.

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