Peak giving once again

Bryce Alderton

Volunteer turnout for the 10th annual Toshiba Senior Classic is once

again at a high heading into tournament week, which begins Monday

with the pro-am.

Tournament co-chair Jake Rohrer said the number of volunteers

hover around 1,000 for the week. As of March 3, Rohrer said about 900

had shown an interest in duties ranging from course marshaling and

scorekeeping to registration/check-in and laser operators, those who

measure drives, approach shots and putts with the PGA Tour’s new

computerized scoring system.

“The response has been positive,” said Rohrer, charged with

overseeing the volunteer program. “It depends on how many people

work, but 1,000 is a good working number with all the assignments we

have.” He expects to reach, if not surpass 1,000 again this year.

Volunteers received their uniforms last weekend and will attend a

training session in the next two days.

“That is when we pick up a few stragglers who haven’t made up

their mind of what they want to do,” Rohrer said about the weekend

when uniforms are distributed. “My job is to keep the volunteers

going in the right direction and checking with committee chairs to

see if any issues have come up that we need to deal with. The

training sessions are busy.”

Many volunteers take vacation time to assist with security,

parking, transportation, ecology and hospitality.

Last week Rohrer said more volunteers were needed for marshaling,

on-course leaderboards, registration and credential verification.