Pebble Beach - Day 1!

Today was the start of the historic US Women’s Open at Pebble Beach! I was on hole #16 today. They started half of the field on hole #1 and the other half on hole #10 (this is typical for the first two days of golf tournaments). The first groups teed off at 7:00 so, my shift started at 8:30. It was a damp and foggy morning. The sun never did come out and the wind picked up. Needless to say, despite my layers, I was cold! I will definitely add more layers tomorrow. No real drama on my hole today. One player did hit it into a ravine under a bridge and had to take a drop. I only got ‘coached’ over the radio once when I didn’t measure a shot out of a bunker (silly me for thinking I was only measuring drives!). The, first in a Women’s event, technology is sooo easy to use - no wonder the Men have needed it! Other observations for today included a family of deer meandering around hole #16. They were oblivious of the players and they thought the fairway was there just for their breakfast and the bunker made a good short cut to get to the other side of the fairway. I also saw my first raccoon in the wild! Unfortunately, the sea gulls are a bit alpha and kept dive bombing the raccoon. The sea gulls did not discriminate because they were attacking the drones as well! Since I was frozen and tired, Nan and I left fairly soon after my shift ended at 2:00 and went to have an early supper at the restaurant at The Hay (par 3 golf course designed by Tiger Woods near Pebble Beach). They have good Mexican food. There was also a private event there where we saw several past US Open winners/players.

Look for me tomorrow morning on hole #16 and #9 in the afternoon…

(I’m the funny one on the right, but check out the deer behind us on the left…)