alternative appropriate circuitry and componentry for the sound generating device 30 a variety of sounds voices tunes etc may be programmed into the sound generating device 30 and can be in some recognizable way associated with or appropriate for the configured portion 22 for which it is intended for example the configured portion 22 of the body 14 may resemble an animal and the sound generating device 30 would emit appropriate animal calls or the configured portion 22 may include humorous ethnic religious commercial or political content and the sounds emitted would be related in theme furthermore multiple sounds voice phrases or tunes may be generated by the sound generating device 30 as a result one aspect of the present invention is a sporting implement protection device 10 which has a distinctively configured portion 22 and a sound device 30 for emitting sounds voices or tunes which are recognizably associated with the configured portion 22 in use and operation the head cover 10 of the illustrated embodiment is placed upon the golf club 12 by inserting the club head 20 through the aperture 16 and into the inner implement receiving cavity 18 as illustrated in fig1 the device 10 covers the head 70 of the golf club 12 and a portion of the club shaft 74 upon sufficient contact by the user to trigger switch 52 the sound generating device 30 will produce a desire voice phrase which is desirably.