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Originally Posted by powder_8s
I've worked as a camera operator. As far as I can tell that is a hand held shot. I would be shocked if that was taken from a tri-pod. With all the jerking zooms and jerking motion. It is very likely an amateur camera man with cheap equipment.
When you take a 3 dimensional world and put it in a 2 dimensional frame, things look vastly different. If the camera moves up. It can appear as if the ball rolls down. What I am saying is, as the ball moves down the camera jerks right and then upward. With this camera shot, it is not possible to prove the ball did not return to it's original position.
You must have never seen hand-held footage before. While there is some movement, an amateur hand-held shot would be moving 10x more than that clip did. Yes, the zooms are bad, but the operator probably assumed that any zooms would be edited out of the finished product, not that the raw footage would be used for rules enforcement.
Plus, the article states, "The infraction was captured by a PGA TOUR Entertainment crew." Not some dude with an iPhone.