The final round for the biggest tournament of the year was today. On hole 17 (a 163 yard Par 3) if you get a hole-in-one you win a Honda truck from a local dealer.
Now here's the story: Since I'm such a nice young man and t's hard for me to say no to anyone, I decided to take one of the most boring, worthless, and meaningless job in the world. For 11 1/2 hours, I sat on hole 17 waiting for someone to get a hole-in-one. My job was to be the witness for the person who got one, and record their name, etc.
It was not fun at all. Every group of 6 that came up said the same exact thing "Give you $100 if you say I got a hole-in-one. Hahaha." At first it was funny and played around with it a little, but after about 2 hours of the same joke, I knew it would be a long day. Although, I did see 216 different swings. It's interesting sitting back and seeing how people swing. Makes you think about your own after you see 216 completely different ones.
I did receive $50 for my duties. Less than minimum wage, but for sitting on my butt all day, it doesn't seem to bad. But without any entertainment, even a club, it gets boring fast.
Also at the end the car dealer let me hit a ball to see if I could win the truck. I hit right, bounced off the cart path and went OB. :( At least I tried. :)
If they didn't supply you with beer, then I'd think you should get some kind of nomination for sainthood. We've held a few tournaments, but have always rotated that job. That is a long day.
I feel your pain...many years ago I was a lifeguard at our city pool. Even rotating from station to station around the deck, it was a miserable job. At least I had some decent sites to look at.
We just had our member guest this weekend and the hole in one prize each day was $4000 cash. I asked why not a car or something and was told that any prize over $4500 has to have a witness and it hard to get someone to sit and watch everybody hit. So the committee made the decision to give someone for less money and take the players word if the made it.
Halfway through the tournament, the beer girl came out and gave me some prime rib for lunch and a lemonade. :)
Not very many people hit the green, it seemed like a tough distance for eveyone. Guys were either short, or very long. Few made it to the middle of the green.
Another reason why it was so long is because the pin placement on 16 was ridiculous. groups would come blazing up the fairway in minutes, then spend 20 minutes on the green! It was a scramble tournament btw.
We just had our member guest this weekend and the hole in one prize each day was $4000 cash. I asked why not a car or something and was told that any prize over $4500 has to have a witness and it hard to get someone to sit and watch everybody hit. So the committee made the decision to give someone for less money and take the players word if the made it.
Every year at my Boston College employee golf tournament they do this thing on one of the par 3's called Beat The Pro. When your 4-some comes to the tee, he hits a shot that can be used as your 'best-ball' if you'd like. Also, anyone in the 4-some who gets it closer than the pro, gets a sleeve or something.
So this poor guy has to sit up there all day, hitting the same shot into the same green. Every once in a while he hits a terrible ball that ends up OB or something. I've seen him do it two years in a row for my group!
The other thing is that it's kind of intimidating. Having the pro sitting there seems to add pressure. I enjoy hitting a quality shot to pin-high and having him say something like, "Nice swing son!"
Every year at my Boston College employee golf tournament they do this thing on one of the par 3's called Beat The Pro. When your 4-some comes to the tee, he hits a shot that can be used as your 'best-ball' if you'd like. Also, anyone in the 4-some who gets it closer than the pro, gets a sleeve or something.
So this poor guy has to sit up there all day, hitting the same shot into the same green. Every once in a while he hits a terrible ball that ends up OB or something. I've seen him do it two years in a row for my group!
The other thing is that it's kind of intimidating. Having the pro sitting there seems to add pressure. I enjoy hitting a quality shot to pin-high and having him say something like, "Nice swing son!"
Good Lord, Talk about a job that would make you want to blow your brains out...I've seen this done on a drawing basis. (Three people chosen by random drawing get to try to better the pros shot) but never as an all day thing...How horrible.
Once I was in a tournament, a 4 man scramble, where on the tenth hole, a 330 yard par 4, a guy who was a finalist once in the national long driving contest would hit your groups 4 drives for $5 a ball. He hit our 4 drives, one in a trap, one long, and one in the woods, but his best one was in the fringe pin-high from which we made easy birdie. But in that format it was like 90% we woulda birdied that hole anyway. After we left all I could think about was that poor guy having to stand out there hitting drives for 5-6 hours. At least it was worth $20 per group, tho I don't know if that was going to him or to the charity the tournament was raising funds for.
when i first started playing golf , and was in scrambles for charity, they would have contests where you got a sleeve of balls if you hit the green on a par #3....now i could not hit the side of a barn mind you, but i would concentrate and invariably nail it...weird , huh? now where is that hole w the car ???? the golf mind is a funny thing
July 31st, 2006, 02:17 AM
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