My name is Steven Long and I'm a junior here at Clemson University. While being enrolled in the Turfgrass program, I was given the opportunity to participate in the HOPE Intern Program. Therefore, I decided to get involved with a golf course local to my area that I had been playing on since high school. Black Bear Golf Club of Myrtle Beach, S.C., enabled me to gain experience in the field of my major, which I had previously been unable to do. Having never worked at a golf course before, I learned lots of valuable information, which will provide me with knowledge on my future places of employment. My duties were rotated frequently enough that I seldom got bored with the jobs I performed, which included chemical applications, aerifying greens and fairways, changing pin placements, blowing cart paths clean, weed-eating, edging and raking sand traps, and cutting roughs, fairways, tees, collars, approaches, and greens. The superintendent at Black Bear, Mark Prince, a former graduate of Clemson, was always fair in assigning and evaluating my work and often thought I had done a better job than I had originally thought. He kept encouraging me to do my best and insisting that I was one of the best workers on the team. I recommend this course to any future interns that have not previously had any golf course experience and looking to have a good time at Myrtle Beach while learning the basics here at Black Bear. Another incentive at Black Bear is that it offers all its employees free rounds of golf, which couldn't hurt anyone's game.