What a Week That Was

The month of April looks slow on the SCJGA calendar, it is anything but slow around the office. We have been busy with strategic planning and a transformation of sorts during the “winter” months. Our Hootie and the Blowfish Chapter series will begin a face lift starting with the coastal chapters. The overall goal is to give the entire program a uniform feel, very similar to our One Day Series that runs on the bookends of the Chapters.  We have also revamped our Little Legends program to the newly named Team Series. The name is not the only change, certainly not a major overhaul but rather some tweaking to the program.

On Thursday April 11th, we held the Columbia Golf  Ball with the SCJGF at the State Fairgrounds in Columbia. It was a great evening as usual with many friends and lots of nice items available in our silent and live auctions. We use the following day to clean up and organize the final details of the previous evening. Then it’s off to Myrtle Beach for the Monday After the Masters. This is always a fun and tiring adventure. There are many duties involved for us, starting at 5AM at the House of Blues to help check tickets at the bus. Giving out the 90 carts needed by Police, Ecology and all the Food and Beverage. We also assist in putting up the event signage around the course, as well as placing all the wire trash cans out. Chris Miller is in charge of running the Celebrity Long Drive Contest as well as arranging to have our Caddies in the proper places. Once the actual tournament is done for the day, we collect our 90 carts, take up the trash cans, help assist in signage take down and help collect all the coolers on the course. The Tuesday after the Masters, we will take down all the gallery rope and stake and help take down the “Monster Board”. After that we pack it up and head back to home, very briefly. Actually while we are Myrtle Beach, two of our co workers were already in Hilton Head setting up for our hospitality tent on 18 tee box.

During the RBC Heritage presented by Boeing we run the childrens putting clininc with the help of a few PGA Tour players, KJ Choi being by far the funniest this year. Then from Weds to the finish of the tournament we are posted up on 18 tee box giving away SCGA tee shirts, koozies and krokies. There was an autograph hound contest for the kids to earn a Harbour Town/SCGA golf bag. Emily Geiger of Columbia won Fridays contest with over 100 autographs. Many special guests stopped by, William McGirt came by Friday after his round, Steve Spurrier dropped in and even the Golf Channel came in and pulled a joke on Charlie Rymer with our help. It was a fun yet tiring stretch and we look forward to running tournaments and programs starting very soon!!!