Thursday, May 17

Craig had me come to the course early this morning because it was the first major outing of the year. The black fly open was happening at lake Sunapee country club and over 120 people would be attending the charity golf event. I got there around eight am and there was a lot to do. I started out by helping pull all the golf carts out and stocking them with pencils, tees, waters, and scorecards. Once all the carts were organized by tee of it was time to start registering people. At nine o’clock people started rolling in. My job was to drive around in a cart taking peoples bags from there car and bringing them to their golf carts. After about an hour of this it was time for tee of. Craig got on the microphone sending all the players to their tees which quieted down  the course for the rest of the day. Since there was an outing there was very little too do, so I just stayed in the pro shop and helped around there until practice.

Daily hours : 3
Total hours : 52

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