Of all the memorable times spent in the BBC Radio Sports Department, some of the happiest were on the golf course.
Between 1973 at Troon and the mid-90s, I covered all but three Open Championships.
In 1975, I was at Carnoustie, and with my sound engineer Ken Keen, a brilliant technician who had devised and refined the equipment to enable extended commentary from all parts of the course, we were following Jack Nicklaus.
After commentating on the putts and giving a brief report on the state of play, we moved to the next tee to catch up with the drives, but Nicklaus was nowhere to be seen. Leaving Ken on the tee, I rushed ahead to find out what had happened to the great man, to be told that he had slipped into a portaloo to relieve himself.
I ran back to the tee where Ken was frantically waving his arms, grabbed the microphone and shouted down the line,
"For Christ's sake, don't come over to me yet. Nicklaus has gone for a pee!"  In the deathly hush that followed, I realised that I had made a live, and fairly historic, broadcast to the nation. 
Memory added on February 11, 2021
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