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Originally Posted by Lumby Lager
If you have enough time, working at a course even as a volunteer marshal/starter has incredible perks. A few of us at the course I work at always volunteer and help out the big tournaments as that happens most of the time. I would strongly recommend it to anyone that has a golf addiction with time to spare.
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Meeting interesting people is another perk. This guy pulls up in his cart and looks at me and says: "Chris? Is that you?" "Remember me? It's Dan, we went to High School together" Then it dawned on me who it was. After I finished my duties and he had his dinner, we had a few drinks in the clubhouse and talked about what happened in our lives since HS.
I tried the marshall thing once but quickly realised you can't marshall your own course as you become not well liked by some of your members. It didn't matter that I was doing my job and asking members to keep up with the pace of play. My late father found out the same thing when he was a marshall.