''It would just make our sport more elite because you are getting inside with us, whereas you can't get inside any other sport."

Some enjoyable comments from Robert Allenby in Marla Ridenour's look at the ways the PGA Tour could spice up its on-air presentation and specifically, hearing more player-caddy chatter via wireless microphones:

''The problem with that is you have a weighted thing in your pocket. It's a big battery,'' Robert Allenby said. ''To have something sitting in your back pocket that gets in the way and you've got a cord hanging down, then that's an issue.''

But five years ago in his native Australia, Allenby said, he championed the use of a ''roving reporter'' during tournaments. He believes the immediacy of describing a great shot and revealing the emotions involved gives viewers a rare intimacy.

Allenby made a good case Tuesday that U.S. network executives should consider his homeland's model.

''It would just make our sport more elite because you are
 getting inside with us, whereas you can't get inside any other sport,'' Allenby said at Muirfield Village Golf Club, where the Memorial Tournament opens Thursday. ''That is the beauty of golf, anyway. Golf is the only sport that spectators can get close to athletes. You can't get close to a football player. You can't get close to a NASCAR driver. On the golf course, you can stand on the tee box and you can nearly touch us. Some people do.''

Lucas Glover voiced what would seem to be the traditional PGA Tour player viewpoint. At least, the view before they hear what the networks offer this time around.

''You are going to have to stop and the camera crew has to get in place,'' Glover said. ''Then you get on the clock, then the guys behind you are yelling, 'Just because you hit a good shot you're going to slow us down.' There is a lot of different stuff that could go on with that.

''I don't think I would like that too much because eventually they'd ask me about the bad shots, too. I think it's fine the way it is.''