Artificial intelligence is infiltrating every corner of professional sports, from scouting and injury prevention to scheduling. Now, it looks like golf has its most sophisticated AI adoption yet, and it’s happening in the bag of Bryson DeChambeau, the sport’s most notorious tinkerer.
“We’re building an AI golf coach,” DeChambeau says. “Essentially, it will be a golf coach that, based on data, will be able to tell you exactly what you’re doing, how to practice, and how to improve your game. We can take a golf swing, compile the information, upload it, and within a minute, it will give me what’s different from my gold standard set of swings.”
A founding editor of The Players’ Tribune, Paul Mueller is a regular contributor to Fast Company. He has written about the Savannah Bananas and the Most Innovative Companies in Sports for the magazine.. Focusing on the intersection of business and sports, his online pieces range across all sports, from the NFL’s secret mission to rid the U.S More