Experience of a Lifetime
Hornsea member Dianne Kingswood recently travelled to America to visit her nephew but added in a little work at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill also whilst she was there. Below is her little adventure in her own words. As you may know, my nephew has been out in USA doing a Green Keeping Internship, which was about to be completed at the end of March. He has spent the last six months at Bay Hill preparing for the Arnold Palmer Invitational and I was looking for ways to go out and see him and take advantage of the opportunity before he came home. Quite by accident, looking at the Website for the tournament I came across 'Volunteers'. I was curious to find out what they were looking for so decided to go through the registration form. I wasn't able to continue through each page of the form unless I completed the questions, so I did. I thought I would be able to either submit or abort once completed but that didn't happen, it automatically submitted after completion of the last question and I received a message thanking me for my application and informing me I would be contacted if I was successful. I actually received three requests in total. The first two were for the whole week doing either gate duties or refilling duties and I declined those. Then I received a request to get involved with Shotlink for the PGA which involved online training, quite mind-boggling, that you had to pass and then on course training on the Wednesday before the event and then straight in on the Thursday for the full four days.
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