By: Caitlin MoyerBLAINE, MN - When Amanda Balionis works on the sidelines for the NFL and college football, no one ever asks her where she played the sport. It’s different, she says, in golf.“Golf is a weird sport like that where people kind of expect that if you cover it, you’re really competitive with it… I’m like, ‘I played volleyball in college, guys.’ But with golf, it’s that odd niche where people ask, ‘What’s your handicap?’ and I say, ‘I don’t have one. I can just go out and play 12 holes if I want to and have a really good time with my friends and family.’”That’s not to say that the CBS sideline reporter doesn’t play the sport or can’t hold her own the course. Growing up in a family of self-described “golf addicts,” Balionis learned the fundamentals and started playing at a young age, but never played competitively. Instead she played volleyball in high school and in college at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, before she transferred to Hofstra University to pursue a degree...
