I was a starter/Players Assistant at Kiawah for 2 1/2 years. I really enjoyed working at Kiawah. Had some good perks that had some strings attached. Could only get a teetime the day of. We got discounts in the golf shops.
as far as the job itself, we had about as much authority on the golf course as a WWE referee. Kiawah is foremost, a golf resort. Anything that comes across as negative was frowned upon. First thing, 7am in the morning, the PA drove out to the par 3's and filled in divots from the day before. Then you drove the fairways back to front filling in divots until you came upon the first groups. You had a chart on your clipboard that had a matrix corresponding to the tee time and the hole that the group was on that showed what time that they should be at. I always opened up with asking them if they needed any water, which I had in my cooler. Then asked how things were going. Majority of the time you got waved off. Only when there was a gap in play, you had to interact. You take into account the size of the groups, and you watched and tried to help out when you can.
Most of the time, if you asked the slow groups to pick up the pace a little, you wound up getting the stink eye from the group. Or you would get lectured by the leader of the group about how much they know about golf and how little you know. This is even after showing them the chart that showed them that they were 30 minutes behind pace and that there are two open holes in front of them. After leaving them, I then go to the groups that they are holding up and listen to the bitching behind them and hear that I need to "do something" about the slow pace of play. We do note on our clipboards the time when each and every group makes the turn and whether they are on pace or not. So for the most part, we monitor the best we can.
The next rant will be about the Friday afternoon bachelor parties that we try to keep under control.