It takes a certain kind of fan to go to a golf tournament. When you watch golf on television, it is a dynamic thing. You see all the golfers at all the holes; there is always action. When you go to a tournament to watch golf live, this is not the case. You watch all the golfers at one spot, maybe two, depending on the tournament. It takes a dedicated fan to stand there the whole day to watch the game slowly unfold, without knowing what is happening- or has happened- at the other holes.
Yet, if the fans are so dedicated, why are so many of them breaking the rules of etiquette? Cell phones ringing, cell phone conversations, cell phone cameras- or even worse, somebody actually yelling. Golf is not baseball. The links are not a football stadium. Decorum is expected. There is a time for quiet and a time to cheer (golf clap, anyone?), and when fans act outside those set times, they can alter the course of the round.
In a sport where the players police themselves, one would think that we could expect at least as much discipline from the fans.
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