Well, Actually: A Golf Tournament in New Mexico Will Let an AI Call the Shots. Literally.
The 2026 New Mexico Open at Turtleback Mountain Golf & Resort, scheduled for September 13-16, will feature what organizers call a groundbreaking AI commentator alongside a nationally recognized broadcast team. The tournament will also offer live multi-platform coverage and an expanded fan experience. One assumes the human broadcasters will handle the emotional nuance while the algorithm processes statistics.
This illustrates the creeping automation of creative labor, specifically real-time narrative generation. You should consider which parts of your own explanatory or descriptive work are pattern-based and thus automatable, and which require genuine judgment. The boundary moves annually.
The New Mexico Open, held at Turtleback Mountain Golf & Resort, is implementing this AI commentator. The tournament has secured a nationally recognized broadcast team for the 2026 event.
Step 1: Open a free AI chat tool such as ChatGPT or Claude and prompt it to provide play-by-play commentary for a hypothetical golf hole, giving it player names, distances, and lie conditions. Step 2: Compare the AI output to actual human commentary from a YouTube golf highlight, noting where the AI sounds mechanical and where it surprises you. Step 3: Refine your prompt with specific stylistic instructions, such as imitating a particular commentator's cadence, and observe whether specificity improves the result.