The course looks amazing on TV. I haven't seen a course that mows the fairways sideways. They showed some replays from 2007, and they did the same that year as well.
I like the tracer, and especially the dual screen with a hole diagram with a tracer on one side and the player on the other.
I agree with the poor camera work. Too many of the balls rolling off false edges are zoomed in so close you can't tell where or how far it's going from the hole. They will show a player watch and not the ball as it slowly trickles on the putting surface. On the shot that Westwood holed, they showed his face until the ball was about three feet away. Where did it land and how did it get into the hole? They seem to be sitting on groups walking or waiting or just sitting instead of going to other players. I know they always limit the number of people they cover during the final round (never understood why they don't show more or use tape delay on Sundays), but they seemed to do it for much of the coverage all three days. Why are you showing a person walk down the fairway for 40 seconds when you could show another shot? I really didn't like how much they showed people warming up between rounds. At one point, there were at least 8 groups on the course, but they showed Johnson hit 15 wedges on the range. You can't tell me there wasn't a better shot that actually counted to show during this time.
I am getting fed up with the constant praise for "deliberate" players. They aren't deliberate, they are slow. This isn't just a Fox criticism as every network does it, but they were guilty of it today.
I also don't understand why they have to talk so much about stimp numbers. How about just talk that they are fast? Now every person I see for the next month is going to talk about the course they were at with greens running at 14. I did like that Zinger corrected Faxon or Strange when they said they were at 14. He said, "I don't think they're 14, but they do have a lot of fire."
I like that Hanse is involved to discuss design, but pretty much all the other cut aways are completely worthless. I didn't tune in to hear a terrible interview or what people on twitter are saying. Show more golf.
I do like the target on the screen with a yardage to the pin or trouble. I also like the blimp show that shows the routing with arrows. It's neat to see how the holes fit together.
Overall, I think this year is considerably better than last. They still have some members of the team that are really, really bad. The other network crews all have some poor members, but it seems that some of the Fox team are incompetent or seem uncomfortable on TV.