Day 60: Three rounds in two days

The sunrise was amazing this morning! Photo credit
goes to Landon.

It was another early morning today. We had to finish the first wave of the second round, which the groups took a cart back out to the hole they ended on yesterday at 8:30 a.m. At 8:45 a.m. The second wave of the second round started off of the Nos. 1 and 10 starting tees. Once all the groups made the turn, the ops crew and golf course staff followed behind them to cut new hole locations for the final round. Unlike a normal 1- and 2-tee start where the round can start with holes still being cut, all of the holes have to be cut and tees set for a shotgun since there is a group starting on every hole.  The second wave of round two finished at 2:10 p.m. and Michael, Tim and I had about 30 minutes to make the cut, repair, print and copy pairings, print and check scorecards and get all of the paperwork distributed to the players so that they could drive out to their holes at 2:50 for a final round shotgun at 3 p.m. It was a hectic hour, but we were able to blow the air horns signaling the start of the round at 2:59. I couldn't believe we did it and that it went really smoothly. It was definitely a successful 1.75 rounds. 

We were saying at the beginning of the week that we almost had too much staff for how quick the golf course was--time par was 3:50--but it was such a blessing that we had 12 interns and two full-time staff members because it was all hands on deck the past two days. It was a lt of fun to have Tony, Tim, Paul, and Kathleen with us this week, especially because Tony and Kathleen were two of the order people I met at IRW in Marcj. 

The clubhouse was great! It was close to the cart barn,
had a large room for HQ and could fit all of the players
in the ballroom for the meetings.

Everyone was presently surprised that we were able to get in a full 54-hole tournament in just two days. We were at the golf course and working for 32 of the past 48 hours to make it possible, but we did it! Now, time to catch up on some sleep!