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First round, East of Ireland Amateur Championship


Nathan McKinniss

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First round of the East of Ireland Amateur Golf Championship came and went today. The schedule of the greens crew differed from the weekdays. Early start at 5 a.m. until we all complete our morning duties preparing the course for the players.

 

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My morning duty was completed with Assistant Greenkeeper Joe Mooney. We set the first round pin positions and changed the flags for the tournament.

 

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Joe changing the cup

 

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Purple flags on the front 9 and white flags for the back 9

 

After the whole crew finished for the morning we sat down for a grand breakfast buffet provided by the restaurant and kitchen. We would then regroup at 6:30pm to get the evening jobs done.

 

Again I was sent out to burn in the lines on the tee boxes. The tee mowing voyage had to be rearranged in order that there is no interference with the players finishing their round.

 

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Golfers tee shot from the Par 4 hole 8. What's more impressive than those bullets (maybe) is the shot needed to get to the fairway. It is nearly a blind shot and from a very far distance. You can barely see the fairway at the top of this photo.

 

The first round today ended well.

 

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And Oh Happy Days! My hat turned up in the Lost and Found!

 

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Lost and Found bin with a surprise right on top.

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Happy Days. Would hate to think of what it would cost to send another one from Findlay. Odd that the person who found it didn't want to keep it...

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