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Are there too many on field microphones good for TV?

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Watching the 3rd round of the Masters, I (and the rest of the National Audience) heard a very famous golfer utter a real bad phrase (GDI) after hitting a ball into the trees. This isn't the 1st time it's happened; I remember it happening in the U.S. Open on the 18th hole and several other times. The PGA Tour levies fines for bad language but the masters is not a PGA Tour event.
I can deal with it but what about young people and very religious types that were watching? A lot of people grew up in an era where you don't say this on OTA broadcast television.
Are there too many on field microphones?
Do they make for "better" TV?
Please weigh in.
 
I agree about the mic's. They only need about 2 for golf (tee and crowd mic) because it is a nonverbal sport.

Speaking of the Masters, didn't it seem like they used old graphics for the coverage yesterday? I thought CBS had updated graphics on all of its sports telecasts about 3 years ago. Maybe it is something they keep with that I never noticed, because I do know that Augusta has so much say in what CBS can and can't do (kind of like the NFL). Maybe it is "a tradition unlike any other" that they want to keep with the old orange-ish graphics, who knows.
 
They used this package for the Masters last year; I recall noticing the same thing you did then.
 
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