The PGA Tour is bringing live golf courses to your coffee table via Apple’s AR platform — techcrunch.com

If you thought that televised gold was just about as technologically advanced as it was ever going to be, it’d be understandable, but you’d be oh so wrong. The PGA Tour is showcasing a new augmented reality app that will utilize Apple’s ARKit platform to let users visualize courses and holes in their living rooms and see how the pros stack up against each other. You can select your favorite players and compare their strokes and get details on how long their drives were and where they sank the putt from. In the app’s early days, you’ll just be able to check out a few featured holes inside this app; it’s not something you’ll be able to access for every hole. Live AR coverage will be available this week on March 15 for the Arnold Palmer Invitational with the 6th hole getting the AR featured hole treatment.

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