It's only 9:15 a.m. on Saturday but Michigan men's golf coach Andrew Sapp is wide awake. He should be too, considering he's already been at the Michigan golf course for three hours now.

It's early in the first round of this past weekend's 54-hole Wolverine Invitational. Thirty-six holes will be played Saturday followed, by a final 18 on Sunday. It's also Sapp's first time hosting a tournament as a collegiate head coach, but one would never know that just by looking at him.

Dressed in the typical men's golf coach outfit - khaki pants, black golf cleats and a Michigan jacket and hat - Sapp is cool and collected, standing just off the third tee waiting patiently for some of his golfers to arrive.

If only hosting your first tournament at Michigan was this easy.

9:25 a.m.

"I've been here since about 6:30 this morning," Sapp says with his slight southern accent. "First, assistant coach (Doug) Gross and I made sure the course was set up, then I went to the driving range to set that up, too."

From the looks of things, Sapp's course set up at 6,700 yards has already seemed to give some of his own Wolverines the fits. Sophomore Rob Tighe approaches Sapp on the third tee box.

"How are you hitting it?" Sapp asks.

"I bogeyed the last hole," Tighe responds.

"That's OK," Sapp says, "Just swing for the fairway here on three."

Sapp smiles as Tighe nails one down the middle of the fairway. "Nice shot Rob, keep it up."

The coach then immediately redirects his attention from coaching the tournament to doing something he'll worry about much more over the rest of the day: hosting it.

"I had to make sure that there are enough snacks and make sure we have coolers set up around the course this morning," Sapp said.

Sapp may be a head coach of a Division I-A golf team, but that doesn't get him out of having to make sure there are enough Nutri-Grain bars for all the players.

9:45 a.m.

Because there are 17 teams in this year's field, the tournament has gone off in a shotgun start. That means instead of everyone teeing off on the first hole, everyone tees off at the same time but on different holes.

Because this is Sapp's tournament, he set up the pairings. The Michigan players - freshmen Mark McIntosh and Christian Vozza, Tighe, and juniors Dave Nichols and Scott Carlton - have teed off on the first three holes with players from Michigan State and Indiana.

Pairing his players with Michigan State and Indiana is all part of Sapp's season-long plan of playing in tournaments with the best players in the country.

"I put our guys with Michigan State because I feel that Michigan State is the best team in this field and Indiana may be the next best," Sapp said.

10:02 a.m.

After watching his players come through the third hole, Sapp gets in his golf cart and is on the move. It will be nearly four hours before he stops.

Sapp sees that Carlton has driven his ball through the fairway on the short, downhill sixth hole, leaving him stymied behind a tree. Sapp sees the predicament that Carlton is in and approaches his player.

"OK, don't force anything here," Sapp says to Carlton. "You probably want to play this one under the tree, not over it."

Carlton agrees, pulls out a low iron and punches his shot under the tree and onto the right edge of the green.

"Nice job, Scott," Sapp says. "Nice job."

10:04 a.m.

Because Carlton's drive went through the fairway, Sapp decides to go back to the sixth tee.

"I'm going to go run up there and tell the guys to stop hitting driver on this hole," Sapp says.

Freshman Blake Burman, the next Wolverine to tee off, decides to hit a four iron. Burman perfectly places the ball down the right side of the fairway.

Sapp smiles.

10:17 a.m.

Unlike professional golf tournaments where there are scoreboards on nearly every hole, the Wolverine Invitational offers no such amenities. Many of the coaches are constantly scrambling to find out just where their players stand.

Sapp's first-year assistant, Doug Gross, who's also serving as the rules official for the tournament, approaches Sapp while the coach is watching Carlton finish up on the sixth hole.

"How are we doing so far?" Gross asks.

Sapp shrugs his shoulders. "I'm not really sure."

10:22 a.m.

While Friday's rain is gone by Saturday morning, the course is still being hit with a cool wind gust that is forcing many of the players to put on long-sleeve shirts and jackets.

"Man, it's freezing out here," Gross says to Sapp.

Sapp smiles. "At least we'll have a lot of beverages left in the coolers."

10:32 a.m.

Just as Sapp has settled down and begun to focus his attention on following one of his players, he is approached by Seton Hall coach Clark Holle.