Day 3    August 31, 2013   Saturday  DBC

Got assigned to the Bubba Watson, Zach Johnson, and Harris English threesome for a 12:58 tee time, with me as crew leader along with Tom and Mike. Should be a smooth day as these three players were likely to draw a moderately sized Saturday gallery.  Sent texts out to several people who like to watch the tournament on TV and look for me if they know who I'm assigned to.  Otherwise all of us volunteers look the same in our identical Blue Crew golf shirts and hats. We had a nice warm morning for our breakfast, seated outside of the volunteer pavilion at the picnic tables, two other marshals from hole 10 joining us.  They were especially interested to hear what is was like to be a  mobile marshal; they'd seen us coming by their hole each day but didn't know if we had something to do with monitoring ''mobile'' phone use by spectators.  After breakfast the three of us went to the player practice range and sat in the bleachers to watch various players warm-up, while we performed some group swing analysis. Saw Sean Foley, Tiger's swing coach walking about.  After the morning wave of players dwindled, we went to the grandstand at the 16th green, the signature hole at DBC, a beautiful par-3 over water, in a semi-stadium atmosphere with corporate pavilions from tee to green.  Its a nice vantage point from which to observe tee shots as they come at you before landing on the green. The crowd was definitely into it for well struck shots, with lots of catcalls thrown at the players as they made their walk to the green.

After lunch, catered by Bertucci's pizza, went to the 10th tee to join up with our assigned group of players.  There were about 200 people in the gallery to start, very manageable for our 3-man mobile marshal crew, plus the hole marshals stationed along the way.  I spied Bubba's wife Angie and offered her any assistance she might require throughout the round, which she appreciated.  Tom and Mike made for a good team as we escorted Bubba, Zach, and Harris through the course.  A hot and humid day but we got water from the coolers positioned at every tee.  Bubba and Zach played well, but Harris was exceptional at -8, (Garcia the leader at -13).  Got to ride in the cart seated next to Zach as we were transported from the 7th green to the 8th tee, didn't talk, he was working.  After finishing at the 9th hole we were relieved of duty, no need to escort players to the scoring-interview-autograph area as they were being transported by cart over to the clubhouse.  That's generally the way it is when they start players off both the 1st and 10th tees due to possible weather concerns.  Mike and I said goodbye to Tom who headed back to the Cape, while we were off to our AirBNB rental in Pawtucket, dinner at a questionable Chinese place, followed by a lengthy debate about whether Tiger would win any more majors.