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Originally Posted by stewartjames

Wow! What a response ,thank you all for your comments on my job's importance. You go out in the dark each morning attempting to find ways to make the course both challenging and fun and sometimes it feels like nobody notices. The thought and preparation that we put in trying to insure that each of us has a memorable golfing experience goes on most of the night and day.
First let me apologize to this fellow villager and his group for my shortcomings of not making his day more relaxing and fun. Just a couple of weeks back we were fighting to keep these greens playable! We were coming n 2,3 4 in the am spraying ,watering,aerating the greens to rid them of black spots,bare spots, due to the short days, cold nights and extreme amount of play. Here in the villages we never have an off day. We have about 200 to 400 golfers,up 800 steps waliking the greens and it's extremely challenging to keep the conditions near perfect. Take up north ,our course was closed on Mondays ,winter and early spring and fall so we could do all our catch up maintenance. Not here we have more play than any other place in the world! Everyday we rotate the holes front ,middle, back. We move the pins left to right. Since we were struggling to keep the greens playable I was moving the holes to side positions so to relieve the large portion of the greens so they could return to the wonderful condition they are in today. I do love a challenge when I golf but will take into consideration some folks need for relaxation. We do try and get the feel of for the course,what was the intent of the designer? Place the pins to the side of a trap, front or back? Water hazards place the pin to the front near the hazard or take it out of play.? These are thoughts that cross my mind at 5am in the dark moving from green to green. We are advised to take 2 large steps from the fringe for hole placement and we are advised not to place holes on an extreme slope. Pictures are posted in the office as to not place holes in areas of unfair placement positions. For instance #9 on escambia we are not to place the hole in the center of the green in the middle the slope ,same for volusia #1. We do have young folks and persons working unfamiliar with the beautiful game of golf who are learning so please try to be understanding. I golf as many different courses here and must bite my lip when I see a hole cut short,pin unable to place in the hole,or tee markers sticking out of the ground,but I look into the big bright beautiful sky anf thank my lucky stars I still have the health and fortunate luck to be here!
We have the busiest hard working golf superintendents in the world who get little time off work night and day so we all can have the most memorable ,challenging fun day of this great game of golf.
Again my apologies to this fellow villager and his group. I will make every attempt to keep all your comments with me as I arise at 4am to make all your days a pleasurable day of golf!

You sound like you're not enjoying your job anymore.