After our tour of Scotland and Ireland and the trip to Harrogate, it was time to get down to the business of learning.

It's only been a few years that BIGGA has offered education on Sunday. The thinking was that by extending the education into the prior weekend that attendees could get some education on a day that doesn't take them away from their home course.

Approximately 200 attendees (including the TurfNet delegation) started classes that day.

The six of us split up and took a variety of courses. I took a half-day session on Time Management from Shona Garner.

Shona Garner leads her class on time management.

Peter Braun took a bunker course from our St. Andrews host Andy Campbell.

Ryder Cup/Hazeltine reunion: Peter Braun, Ryan Moy, Brian Horgan, Chris Tritabaugh and multi-Ryder Cup volunteer Lee Strutt.

Tony Girardi took a full day session on Delivering Your Message with Impact with Lorna Sheldon. The class was very small just four participants including Natasha Repinskaja whom we met at St. Andrews Links and fellow first time BTME attendee Michael Mead (more on our activities with him in a future post.)

Lorna Sheldon helps Tony Girardi "deliver his message with impact" in Sunday's session.

At the end of the first all-day session, Tony Girardi dubbed it, "The best educational session I've been to in my career."

I was set to attend the Speakers Dinner at The Crown Hotel so the group was left to find a suitable place for dinner with the hopes of finding some coverage of the NFL Playoffs.

The Den seemed to fit the bill and even allowed us to catch up with two Carnoustie team members that we hadn't met during our visit to the course the previous Friday.

As the Green Bay/Dallas game went on past "last order" a few more "bob" in the tip jar kept the game on the TV and the bar open.