Tennis and golf seem so much different than almost all other sports. Baseball is the most intense with a pitcher throwing a ball towards you at over 100mph. NFL quarterbacks have to go to a silent count to snap the ball because they can’t hear the call. Basketball, Soccer (futball), Rugby, NFL, hockey, etc… all allow as much noise as you can make. Most teams will also encourage noise when the opponent has the ball. Why is tennis and golf an outlier?
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They’re not entirely outliers. There are other sports internationally, like curling, where the same etiquette is normal. Essentially it’s a cultural artifact. These sports that first evolved as sort of “gentlemanly pastimes” for the upper middle class expect both the players and the audience to be a bit less, well, rowdy.
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