Day 2  August 30, 2013

The first day of competition after the pro-am, Mike's first day as well. We were assigned to the threesome of Poulter, Leishman, and Flores as a 4-man crew with me as leader, along with Mike, Tom, and Steve, a marshal I'd never worked with before but a veteran volunteer on other committees.  We weren't teeing off until 1:22pm so after breakfast we went to the player practice area where Mike got the full newbie experience up close and personal with all the players, caddies, media, equipment reps, all sorts of interesting people.  We helped out a bit with the volunteers at the ball tent but mostly stayed out of the way while watching all that was going on.  Mike and Tom were really enjoying it.  After awhile we went over to the tenth tee just in time to see Tiger, Phil, and Adam Scott tee off, leading a huge gallery even at that morning hour.  (Phil would end up leading the tournament by the end of the day at -8).  We adjourned to the volunteer tent for a second breakfast, which we took over to the 9th grandstand to watch 6 or 7 threesomes come through.  I spied Bubba Watson's wife Angie sitting a few rows away, waiting for Bubba to come along.  At lunch we sat down at the only available table with a cart marshal, a good-old boy from Mississippi by way of Stoughton who was a really fun guy, talking a blue streak about every subject under the sun.  I later said to Mike and Tom that the past 7 hours were typical of how I spent my time at past DBC's, meeting some pretty interesting people.

On the 1st tee, Steve didn't show, so it was just us three for the Poulter group, which was fine as we didn't anticipate a huge gallery.  I focused on showing Mike and Tom the ropes of being a mobile marshal; how to assess what was needed in a constantly changing situation from hole-to-hole.  Both were catching on quickly, loving it being inside the ropes generally as we escorted the players through their 18-hole round.  Mike had an unbelievable experience at the 7th green when we all climbed into the carts that transport us 200 yards to the 8th tee, sitting next to Poulter.  Mike told us afterwards that  the volunteer cart driver noticed Poulter's caddie unwrapping a piece of candy, and asked if he was going to offer any to Mr. Poulter.  The caddie evidently said jokingly, "I ain't giving him none of me bleeding candy", to which Poulter reportedly replied, "Well, I wouldn't give him the steam off me p___!"  (I guess this is an Old English put-down).  Tom and I were in hysterics after hearing this little player-caddie interaction, maybe a carryover from yesterday's golfball throwing contest.  Poulter was playing quite well, finishing the day at 5 under par.  We finished around 6:30, another 12 hour day at DBC, all of us in agreement that it had been a great experience.