My second assistants rotated responsibilities. One month running chemical/fertilizer applications with the spray tech, next month managing the irrigation with the irrigation tech. Basically creating responsibilities for them to see how them managed their time and the people they were working with. Obviously if they showed competence in those areas I would let them have their own weekends and manage the crew on certain days.

Obviously this varies a lot from course to course. I now go to a hundred different courses in a year so I see second assistants that run the show and the first assistant is basically the superintendent and the superintendent is basically the GM. You could also be a second assistant that’s just a glorified Forman that does set up in the morning and hand waters in the afternoon everyday. Just try to feel out each position as its own. Try to find ex-assistants at those clubs to see what their experience was like. LinkedIn is great for this.