Day one at Lake Sunapee country club

The day started at about eight forty five when I arrived at the golf course. I got in and started with a few more simple jobs like unpacking clubs and folding up score cards but eventually I was able to go out on the course and demo some of the new irons the club had just got. One of my jobs at the course is to demo new clubs and write reviews on them for the web site. Today I played with the new Titleist AP3 set as well as a few of there newer model drivers. I went out and played nine holes with the club as taking note of all the things I noticed about it that were different from my own to help understand and be able to review the club better. Overall today was a generally more low key day but tomorrow things will begin to ramp up at the course. As the weather warms up and more people come to play golf there is going to be a lot more work around the golf course such as setting up hazard stakes and putting up the driving range net. Great day on the course excited to do some harder work tomorrow.

6 hours today
6 hours overall

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