Mastering Golf with AI

How cutting-edge AI technology is redefining golf's most prestigious event

My favourite weekend is here - Masters weekend. The tournament, hosted at Augusta National, is known for its rich history and tradition. Referred to as "the adult Disneyland", going to Augusta National for the Masters Tournament is expensive, but once inside, food and drink are unfathomably cheap, especially if you’ve recently been to New World. The famous pimento cheese sandwich is only $1.50, and no food item costs more than $3.

Augusta is at the forefront of embracing AI to transform the golfing experience. We will explore two innovative new features of the Masters app and Master.com digital experience highlighting how AI is changing the game at The Masters in groundbreaking ways.

AI-Generated Highlights & Commentary

The Masters is a four-day event with many exciting moments, but it can be hard for fans to keep up. AI-generated highlights make it easier by quickly compiling the most thrilling moments from player performance and audience engagement. This year's edition also introduces AI-generated spoken commentary to provide detailed golf narration for over 20,000 video clips throughout the tournament, in addition to the popular MyGroup feature.

AI-Powered Analytics & Predictions

AI is impacting The Masters through advanced analytics that process vast amounts of data to provide insights into player performance, course management, and tournament outcomes. This data can be used by coaches and golfers to make data-driven decisions, leading to better performance and more exciting gameplay.

This year, IBM will introduce hole-by-hole player predictions. Using AutoAI capabilities in IBM Watson Studio, AI models were trained using six years of Masters data — more than 120,000 golf shots. After each hole, the hole-by-hole projections are updated to reflect the player's most recent performance. This new solution expands on the popular Players Insights and Masters Fantasy Projections, which provide insights into exciting holes to watch, low/high scores for all golfers, and projected Masters Fantasy points for every round.

And finally, the question that everyone asks each year: Can Tiger Woods win his 6th Green Jacket? ChatGPT plays down his chances so I’ll pick John Rahm or Tony Finau to win their first green jacket.

Have a great easter everyone.

Jenko

1. Products

Product of the Day

Web-based design platform Canva just introduced a colossal suite of AI-powered design tools focused on helping entire workplaces streamline their content creation process.

Make sure you check out the new “Magic Design” tool that generates a curated selection of personalized templates (such as posters or birthday cards) from any image you upload.

New Products

  • PromptStorm - A simple-to-use Google Chrome extension that unlocks a load of skillfully crafted engineered prompts at your fingertips that you can use.

  • Tripnotes - Plan your next trip in seconds. Your new intelligent, travel planner powered by the best travel data on the planet.

  • Otter AI - Say goodbye to manual note-taking. Get an AI meeting assistant that records audio, takes notes, captures slides, and generates summaries.

  • TimelyApp - The world's best AI-powered automatic time tracker Timely automates company time tracking, so you and your team can focus on the work that matters.

  • Consensus - Ask a question and get conclusions from research papers.

Next week, we will release a database of the best AI tools mentioned in our newsletter.

2. Learn

A day in the life of AI

Every day, we will showcase a workflow or task designed to help you or a specific role save time in their job. Becoming skilled at promoting can be a superpower, so the goal of this section is to help you up skill in this area.

Role: Analyst
Workflow/Task: Create tables with any set of custom data
Task time before AI: 1 hour
Task Time with AI: <1 minute

Wikipedia features numerous tables, but at times, the data may not be precisely what you need. If that is the case, you can try using the ChatGPT Prompt to refine your search.

Example prompt keeping on today’s Masters theme:

Can you provide details of the Masters winners from 1990 to 1999 in a table. I want the following to include the year, winner name, score under part, and who came runner up?

Masters winners from 1990 to 1999 in a table as requested

Please let us know if there are any workflows, tasks, or roles that you would like us to feature.

3. Most Valuable Media (MVM)

Most Valuable Image (MVI)

AI-Generated Image of the Day using the following Prompt:

Editorial style photo, top-down camera shot, blue Mercedes-Benz SL-Class 1963, coastal road, beach, sunny lighting, elegant, refined, iconic, 4k --ar 16:9

Most Valuable Tweet (MVT)

Most Valuable Video or Podcast (MVVP)

Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman talks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about their mutual learnings from the AI tools released to date, primarily GPT-4