Bryan, Texas

Arrived in College Station, TX around midnight last night after a 16 hour work day! Our second tournament- Preseason Junior at Brookhaven Country Club was a good building block for my team and gave us extra practice to get ready for this week/weekend.

Today and Tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday) we will be setting up for our biggest tournament of the Spring- so big that we have a team of full-time staff plus the intern team, so it is going to be all hands on board to pull this thing off.

This week is different because we have a Junior Am on Wednesday where Juniors play with corporate sponsors of the AJGA, we have a practice round that same day, a qualifier the next day, two rounds (36 holes) and a championship round! So- ya: it is going to be pretty intense work and a big weekend because a lot of the full time staff will be there evaluating me to see basically if I have what it takes... Ultimately, I work my heart out and will continue to do so. Doing so has been rewarding to say the least.

I have come to understand time management on a completly different level. I think back to when I used to gripe about a 40 hour work week (from previous internships) and now I am working 2.5 times more! ha! The 100-115 hours a week can be tough at times but I am really enjoying it. I think the biggest adjustment for me is just realizing that work is my life (which I am okay with).

This opportunity has been a beautiful one- I have been able to drive once again from coast to coast and meet some really nice people in the golf industry-- from the cart barn guys who I speak Spanish with every day to the golf pro and superientendent. It has been cool for me to see the many levels of management within the golf world and how precise everything has to be in order for things to run smoothly.

Last week was my favorite tournament so far- it was the first official tournament for our Tournament Director Cover to run all by himself and he did a really great job. It will be cool to look back and remember we were the team to walk through that with him. In Dallas he flirted with the hotel desk and got us VIP level at the Double Tree (ha!) so that was a nice little surprise. We actually managed to go out to a nice dinner and go out afterwards and had a great time.

I think I wrote that in my previous blog but everything just seems to run completely together in my mind (including days of the week) so sorry if you are reading this again! :)

In others news- and rather exciting: I got offered an communications in-house internship for the summer with the AJGA!!! I start May 25th and will work through the end of August. I am really excited about the opportunity and feel so fortunate! Hopefully this will be another positive stepping stone that will help me reach my long term goals with the AJGA.

Other than that, feel free to check out the AJGA Web site- I have some publications up there that I have worked on... but to make things easier, I have attached some links :O)

AJGA Blog- https://www.ajga.org/blog/v200800/

First-round Press Release at my first tournament in Cali-

http://ajga.org/TournResults/2009/TStory.asp?TNo=T14&RNo=1

Final-round Press Release at Brookhaven in Dallas-

http://ajga.org/TournResults/2009/TStory.asp?TNo=T06&RNo=2

Enjoy!

xoxo

K