The DP World Tour and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic partnership that will see the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud become the Official Cloud Provider of golf’s global Tour.
Leveraging AWS’s industry-leading AI infrastructure, the DP World Tour will roll-out a suite of solutions that combine real-time data with historical context to revolutionise the media, spectator and player experience.
Enhancing and personalising the broadcast and social media experience
AWS Media Services will be implemented to stream video and on-demand content to fans, allowing them to see fast-round compilations of selected players. New innovative experiences for fans watching on television and following on social media and the web will be developed using generative AI, including new data-driven insights and shot commentary with instantaneous language translation.
“Building an AI system that understands golf’s nuances is incredibly complex” said Nina Walsh, Global Leader, Industry Business Development for Media, Entertainment, Games, and Sports at AWS. “Imagine following a crucial shot on your mobile device and instantly understanding not just the distance, but the historical success rate, the impact of the wind, or how the player performs under pressure – all narrated in your preferred language. That’s the experience we want to deliver to every golf fan worldwide.”
The DP World Tour’s extensive collection of assets will undergo a transformation through a new AI-powered Media Asset Management (MAM) system that automatically tags metadata. This will transform the Tour’s massive content ecosystem into an intelligent, searchable archive that can instantly identify players, shots and key moments. This will enable new digital offerings for fans, with greater personalisation, so they can easily watch content about their favourite players.
Keeping spectators in the know
For spectators, AWS will build an enhanced, second generation of the Tour’s “Virtual Twin” product, which creates a digital replica of each golf course. Processing over 1million data points per tournament, this technology goes beyond visualisations to combine historical data, current conditions and predictive analytics to provide a comprehensive look at each hole. This is shown on screens across the venue and on mobile devices, allowing fans to experience all the action from any hole, even if they are situated at the other side of the golf course.
Streamlining tournament operations with Agentic AI
For DP World Tour operational teams, a new intelligence platform will process and analyse vast data sources in real-time, making sure that operational decisions – such as marshal deployments, optimising food and merchandise concessions, or advising fans of queue lengths and grandstand occupancy levels – are made with up-to-the-second information. Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Quick Suite will facilitate making this business intelligence accessible to everyone with new agentic experiences, helping the Tour gain the insights to make better data-driven decisions.
Globalising the intelligent course concept
The DP World Tour continues to build its “Tournament-As-A-Service” vision, which aims to create truly intelligent golf courses that deliver a consistent, data-rich experience at every event for players, partners, media and fans. That vision will take a significant step forward from 2026, with tournament applications and data now integrated into AWS. This will allow for greater scalability and flexibility to deliver the Tournament-As-A-Service concept to a greater number of tournaments each season.
“A golf tournament is one of the most complex events to deliver in professional sport. Instead of a single stadium, we are building a smart city every week, often in remote locations” said Michael Cole, Chief Technology Officer at the DP World Tour. “That is then replicated in 26 different countries around the world, all with different infrastructure requirements. With our tournament services now hosted in AWS, we will be able to deliver a connected and intelligent course with greater consistency and reliability, wherever we are in the world.”
Making tournaments more sustainable
Supporting the Tour’s commitment to become net zero carbon by 2040, AWS will power “Green Drive Live,” a new data platform to monitor and optimise energy, emissions, waste, water and logistics in real-time. The platform will use machine learning to predict and optimise future environmental performance by simulating different operational scenarios before events begin. A live emissions dashboard will also be displayed on screens at the venue and in the tournament app with real-time metrics.
Since 2024, the DP World Tour has embarked on a programme to increase the number of television broadcasts that are produced remotely, which reduces the carbon footprint of each tournament by approximately 87 tonnes. AWS’s live cloud production services will be further explored to increase the scale of the Tour’s remote production roll-out.
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