No one does visual bling like Fox Sports, which offers a snazzy, sometimes-too-ornate jewelry box of special effects.
This week, Fox has brought all that jazz to the U.S. Open. Drones. Topo maps. Microphones in cups. Around the golf hole, they've added smudges, the same sort of blur the NHL once used to super-size the puck.
What sounds like troubling video game magic was actually pretty nuanced, at least in the early rounds.
On Friday, the topographic enhancement of undulating greens, known as the "Shaded Green" system, was underwhelming. The swales were almost as evident without the magic trick.