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78 FROM THE ROUGH U.S. OPEN AT CHAMBERS BAY well as Mike Davis from the USGA. Each volunteer was handed a bag containing seven fresh shirts, a jacket, two hats, a water bottle and a shoe bag. It was made clear from the beginning if you wore the wrong color shirt that you would be responsible for buying donuts for the entire crew the next day. Needless to say, we were all in the correct colors each day. The work assignments were handed out and each group met with their perspective crew leader from the fulltime staff. The volunteers were being housed in three fraternities on the campus of the University of Puget Sound. We were told the buses would be there to pick us up at 3 a.m. The 2:30 a.m. alarm came all too soon and each morning around 2:45 as I walked across the street to the bus stop, I was strangely reminded of the show, The Walking Dead. However, once we all arrived at the agronomy center and had our cup of coffee it was game on! Josh started each morning by dismissing the 22 new Toro RM 3550-D fairway mowers; followed by the greens mowers and bunkers crews. With the amount of equipment that needed to get out to the course, staggering the crews was the safest and most efficient way. Everything just seemed to run like a well-oiled machine. The fairway mowers were the stars of the morning shift, often looking Inset Night work requires headlights. Sweeping the sand only needs arm strength.

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