WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- For the second time in less than a month, Nate Gutmann’s summer job has taken him back to North County.

 

Gutmann of Adams, a McCann Tech graduate and senior at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, is a summer intern with Massachusetts Golf Association, which on Sunday and Monday is holding the Massachusetts Amateur Public Links Championship at Waubeeka Golf Links.

 

In July, the MGA held the Massachusetts Amateur Championship at Williamstown’s Taconic Golf Club.

 

“When I’m here, they ask me what’s good in the area because I’m the local boy,” Gutmann said, referring to his MGA colleagues. “It’s fun being out here. I love it.”

 

And Gutmann is loving his time at the association, whether it is helping to update the MGA database at its headquarters in Norton or working at one or two tournaments per week around the commonwealth.

 

“I also help out at the [MGA Links at Mamantapett],” he said, referring to the organization’s par-3 youth program. “I help out with the kids clinics and all that fun stuff. I try to teach the kids the right way.”

 

Gutmann is a relative newcomer to the sport himself, having started playing golf just two and a half years ago. His time with the MGA is helping him gain a deeper appreciation for the sport and, occasionally, work on his own game at some of Massachusetts’ top courses.

 

“I was out here Thursday playing [at Waubeeka],” he said. “Some courses will ask if you want to play. I don’t always because I’m usually two-and-a-half hours away, so I get back in the car [after working at a tournament]. But when I get free time, I do play.”

 

On Sunday, he was helping to update scores on the association’s website and assisting the rest of the MGA’s professional staff keep the tournament running.

 

The course management experience could pay off down the road as Gutmann pursues his career in the business of sports.

 

Gutmann is majoring in business with a concentration in sports management in MCLA. After graduation this year, he hopes to pursue a master’s degree in sports business.

 

“I’m hoping to do anything in the sports realm,” he said. “Realistically, I’d love to be an athletic director. That would be awesome.”

 

For now, Gutmann is having an awesome summer on the links.

 

“Learning the game of golf and being in the organization has been outstanding,” he said. “It’s been everything anyone could dream of.

 

“It’s not playing golf that’s the highlight. It’s the people I meet. … They’re incredible people, and I never would have met them if I didn’t have this internship. That’s what makes this job.”