Behind Sky Sports’ record-breaking Ryder Cup coverage with LucidLink

Background

Five million viewers tuned in to watch Team Europe edge out Team USA at the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage, New York, making it Sky Sports’ most-watched golf broadcast ever.

Behind the scenes, the Sky Post Production team worked with Sky Sports to address this huge technical challenge: connecting Editors, EVS operators and galleries across two continents to turn around highlights, interviews and digital content as the action unfolded.

We spoke to Post Production Technical Lead, Jamie Przygrodzki, about how LucidLink helped Sky Sports deliver its record-breaking coverage, keeping teams in London and New York perfectly in sync.

The challenge: collaborating on live coverage across 3,000 miles

With four Premiere Pro edit suites in Long Island and two in London all cutting simultaneously — plus live galleries, EVS operators and digital teams asking for fast access to footage — Sky Sports needed everyone working from the same media, in real time.

With highlights, interviews and social clips needed within minutes, Sky Post Production were challenged to reduce the time spent waiting for transfers, and to share media rapidly across sites. This meant Editors and teams could start cutting straight away, getting content out to Sky Sports customers faster to enrich the viewer experience. 

But, this needed to be achieved without re-engineering the well-established Adobe and EVS workflows. Enter LucidLink.

The solution: LucidLink’s cloud-native shared filespace

Using LucidLink, Sky Post Production created a single shared filespace connecting the Ryder Cup production team in Long Island with its facility back at Sky in London.

Four Premiere Pro edit seats on-site worked alongside two in London, all accessing the same media directly through LucidLink. Here’s how it worked:

• One source of truth: LucidLink acted as central storage for all Ryder Cup footage, accessible to editors, galleries and ingest operators in real time.

• Integrated with EVS and Simply Live: a gateway server mounted the LucidLink share and exposed it to EVS XTAccess and Simply Live for playout.

• On-demand streaming: editors worked directly from high-res media without needing to sync or generate proxies.

• Encrypted over public internet: the entire workflow ran securely over a 2.5GB internet connection. 

“It’s simple, but cool,” says Jamie. “We were able to provide a piece of storage that multiple systems could write to and read from, regardless of location.”

Due to the connectivity available, uploading high-res media was almost as fast as creating proxies, letting the team skip an entire step and share clips across sites in minutes.

The results: faster workflows, smoother collaboration

LucidLink eliminated the friction of moving and duplicating files, letting the Sky Sports team focus purely on creative output.

“It improved our output by taking away unnecessary technical challenges,” says Jamie.

The workflow enabled Sky Sports’ team to:

• Collaborate in real-time between Long Island and London 

• Deliver highlights to galleries and digital teams in minutes

• Remove multiple Aspera hops, syncs and manual transfers

• Manage all Ryder Cup media centrally, without delays or duplication

The result was fast turnaround, smooth collaboration and a simple tech stack, all built on a standard internet connection.

Beyond the Ryder Cup

Sky Sports uses LucidLink across a growing number of productions, from Formula 1 and darts to horse racing and rugby.

Following the Ryder Cup success, the Sky Post Production team is extending the same transatlantic EVS, Adobe and LucidLink workflow to Sky Sport’s Super Bowl LX coverage — connecting editors and production teams across continents through a single shared filespace.

The Post Production team is also exploring LucidLink TeamCache: shared local caching that speeds up access for everyone working from the same site. It’s another step towards delivering content to viewers faster, whether the action is in London, Long Island or trackside at Silverstone.