[C-Tech]

I wrote earlier in this thread about the retirement community courses I played that had good marshalls (two per side) that kept play moving. One of the things I noticed was that they knew the courses and seemed to be in position to help find lost balls at the common places they knew were a problem. A lot of the time when we teed of on a hole that had a problem area for errant drives, one of these marshalls would be positioned to see the flight of the ball and where it landed so he could keep play moving. I thought several times about how well they knew where the problem spots were. It is hard to find a diplomatic policeman who can use all his skills to keep play moving and the customers happy at the same time, particularly at low wages. I think the big advantage these courses had was that most of the marshalls were men who had come from executive jobs into retirement and did this because they wanted to, not because they needed to eat.