Sunday evening marked the halfway point of the East of Ireland Amateur Championship. There will be two rounds on Monday to finish up. After first two rounds the leader is 9 under Par, with one of Baltrays own, Gerard Dunn, up near the top of the leaderboards at -5.

Digital Leaderboard

Work-wise, todays tasks for me were different than yesterday. I completed course set-up of the back nine while Barry Carpenter covered the front 9. Making sure to have proper alignment of the tee markers, filling any divots on the tee boxes, adding water to the ball washers, collecting any rubbish and fully raking each bunker.

Water was needed on the sod spots in the evening. No break in the weather still so the course has been drying out. Good for the game, not so good for the grass growth.

Hand watering hot spots

The dried out course gave the true links play. All the golfers enjoyed the course but surprised many because they thought the greens would be much much faster.

Mowing greens in the evening. We didnt want to stress the golfers too much on the first two rounds.

Tomorrow morning marks the last day of tournament play, and an end to a long week. Im looking forward to the wakeup call, not because its the final day, but because I get to say goodnight to my girl back home. The time is 11 p.m. in Ohio when Im getting up for tournament work so it will be the best way to start my day and finish hers.