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WATCH: Go behind the scenes of how golf hits your TV screen

Danny Lawhon Zach Boyden-Holmes
The Des Moines Register

In the entertainment world, true professionals take some seriously complicated concepts and turn them into must-see TV.

The Golf Channel pulls one of those herculean efforts almost every week.

A staff of hundreds helps broadcast golf tournaments to viewers on Golf Channel each week.

 

Mind-boggling amounts of cables. A production staff in the hundreds. Eighteen holes, with way more than 18 cameras to keep track of, on a playing field that dwarfs that of most any other sports arena.

In all, Golf Channel is providing almost 30 hours of live coverage of this week's Solheim Cup in central Iowa.

If you've ever wondered how they make it look (mostly) so easy, check out the video with this story as a guide.