BY the time TNT wraps up its coverage of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf on Wednesday, Bermuda's splendor will have been broadcast to millions of homes throughout the world.

And the producer of TNT's coverage, Chris Carmody, said the views from the Mid Ocean Club will certainly make for spectacular viewing ¿ especially since TNT will be filming the 36-hole tournament for the first time completely in HD.

While many TNT workers and technicians have been setting up at the Mid Ocean Club since the beginning of the week, Carmody flies in on Saturday fresh from working the Major League Baseball playoffs in the US.

Speaking from his Atlanta office this week, Carmody said TNT is bringing down a large crew for the event. "The sum total is about 50 peeople from the technical and production point of view," he said.

While Carmody has visited Bermuda before a number of years ago, he did come down for an initial look at what was in store at the Mid Ocean at the beginning fo the year. "I came in late Janaury shortly after it was announced the PGA Grand Slam of Golf was going to be in Bermuda. Obviously it is a unique course, you are right on the ocean. Each tournament has its own idosicrecies, how you set up and so forth. We will be using 12 cameras and they will be hopscotching around the course. You might have a couple on the first hole and then they will go to the third or fourth hole ¿ they will be hopscotching all over."

Normally with an event like this, TNT would be bringing down one of their TV trucks ¿ actually truck is probably the wrong description as its size makes it look more like a mobile home.

"We will be creating our own TV studio. To get a TV truck along the roads down there we would have had to close off the highways. It just makes more sense this way," he said adding, "this is the first time the Grand Slam has been in pure HD. The technology is so advanced now. If we were doing HD three years ago it would not have been so easy but Turner has been using HD for a few years or so for the NBA and the basbeall is all in HD now."

When TNT and Carmody cover the likes of the Open in the UK and the PGA Championship in the US they don't have to bring the amount of equipment they are bringing to Bermuda as they piggyback on to the host broadcaster whether it be the BBC, ABC/ESPN or CBS.

Carmody said: "When we are covering the Open and PGA we have a broadcaster that provides us with the picture. The Open combination is BBC and ABC/ESPN while CBS has their cameras at the PGA. In Bermuda we will have all of our own cameras."

And they will be covering the PGA Grand Slam here using the flyback system.

"We are bringing the equipment that you have in a normal TV truck and we set up our own TV and tape area. The Mid Ocean has been very kind to let us use a portion of their office and storage space to set up our control room."

And they will not be using an announcer tower on the course as seen in many other tournaments.

"This will be a little different. We decided not to set up a announcer tower at the course. Through the PGA of America we are using one of the condos that is connected with the Mid Ocean Club and they will call it from this condo ¿ when we put our announcers on camera there is a nice backdrop of one of the bays over their shoulder. I hope we have good weather ¿ knock on wood. I would also like to see a bit of wind ¿ it will make it more challenging for the players and will make for a better telecast."

The announcers will be the veteran team of Verne Lundquist (play-by-play), Bobby Clampett (analyst), Billy Kratzert (course reporter) and Jim Huber (course reporter) who will provide on-air analysis and commentary.

Carmody said that the majority of the camermen they use do mostly golf "but they will do a basketball game or a baseball game as well. And some of our technicians we have on site work for us for NBA basketball."

While the producer does a variety of sports for TNT, he said his favourite is golf. "Producing golf events is my favourite without a doubt. I am acting as a coordinating producer (for the PGA Grand Slam). In this tournament we have a line producer working with our director to call the shots and I help direct the show. When I do the PGA or the Open I am working in a coordinating producer capacity."

Carmody has visited Bermuda for pleasure and work a number of years ago. Initially, like many other young Americans, he came down a couple of times for College Weeks.

And then in the early 1980s he came down to film the American Sportsman fishing show with Curt Gowdy, actor Ernest Borgnine and NFL receiver Lynn Swan.

"We stayed at Cambridge beaches ¿ I love Bermuda and the Mid OCean is a great course and has a great history behind it."

After the 36-hole tournment finishes on Wednesday the TNT people will start packing up ¿ something they do quicker than setting up.

"When it is over they will spend all day Thursday packing up. They will pretty much be packed up and ready to go by Thursday evening. It is easier packing up than setting up ¿ they know where everything is and where it has to go. But this may be a little harder than normal because they have to pack it up in crates and ship everything back to the US," said Carmody.

The PGA Grand Slam of Golf will mark its 25th anniversary of the event next week and in order to grab the most viewers in the US each day's coverage will be tape delay.

TNT will air exclusive coverage of the event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. ET/PT on Tuesday and coverage continues on Wednesday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET/PT.

TNT broadcasts the event to a worldwide audience of 88.9 million US homes and an international audience of more than 100 countries in a prime-time telecast.

This year, the PGA Grand Slam of Golf features a $1.25 million purse, with the winner receiving $500,000.