By Michael Cochrane ( February 7, 2025, 2:34 PM EST) -- One of the unexpected pleasures of playing golf can be the beautiful sounds experienced while on the course. I’m not talking about the wind whistling through the trees, birds chirping merrily or the burbling of brooks that may dot a course. I’m talking about the sound made by pure contact of golf ball on driver, of the soft thump of a crisp wedge shot as it stops softly on a green and, of course, the sweet hollow rattling clunk of a putt dropping in the cup. Those are the sounds that keep golfers coming back....