Golf
With just four days to go until the start of the tournament, it was important to get up to speed and find out what jobs I would be required to complete over the tournament period
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given the responsibility for cutting the fairways with Kelly, Dave, Sully and Doug, who took me out onto the course and helped me to get to know the layout. This was the first time that I had seen the course and I was blown away by the perfection of it; there was not a single blade of grass out of place!
We cut from tee to green so that there
would be one continuous stripe on the fairways, which would help the ball roll after teeing off. This is the way we’d cut each morning over tournament week, so that the cut was clearly defined by the first day of the event. The mower we used was the Jacobsen LF510; it was a joy to use and made the
cutting a whole lot easier; the controls were straightforward and the machine very comfortable to sit on. After mowing was completed, we returned
to the maintenance facility to wash down the machines. Firstly, we blew all grass off using leaf blowers, which helped to get rid of all loose grass, reducing the risk of blocking the washdown bays. Next, there was a thorough washdown of the whole machine, so that any remaining grass was removed. Once this was completed, we soaped the
bonnets and wheels so that the final rinse would make them spotless and ready to go out the next morning in pristine condition. We repeated this process after each use.
In the afternoon, Kelly and I went out onto the nine-hole Charger course, which is used if maintenance is being carried out on the main course, made up of two nine-hole loops known as the Challenger and Champion. Our job was to insert stakes and rope to direct spectator traffic throughout the tournament, as there would be vast crowds in this area over the four-day period. We toured the main course and Kelly
provided some interesting information on the history of the club; he’s been working there for twenty-four years, so who better to get information off than him. We finished around 5.00pm, so the interns and I went to grab a bite to eat, which gave me an
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