>>> Just a mike to get ambient sound so you hear what you might hear if you where in the ground.
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>That would be fun, but we're not likely to see it.
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>When I first started going to golf tournaments -before Arnold Palmer made the sport so popular - for most tournaments there were no ropes and the gallery walked the fairways with the players.
>The players' language was pretty earthy and some of them - Sam Snead was one of the most vigorous- were hitting on women spectators non-stop (usually with good results.)
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>Since the sport has become popular on TV they keep the audio off the players and separate the gallery purposely.
>Part of the job of the booth announcers is to sanitize the dialogue. Virtually nothing is "real time" - someone has looked at it and said OK before we get to see or hear it.
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>If we could hear what the guys in the NBA or NFL were really saying out there the game might be more fun for us, but it might not be "family" fare.

The mom of one of my high school basketball buddies was a cougar before the term existed. She inspired every guy in the school. In this case she had her sights set higher, Ben Sanders to be specific. And she got her golfer. Or he got her, depending on how you like to look at it.