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An army of 118 volunteers will work at the three-day NSW Senior Open, featuring long-time stars of Australian golf like Peter Senior and Peter Lonard.

"If there's no volunteers, there's no tournament, that's as simple as it can be," Golf NSW media and digital manager David Tease said.

Now in its third year, the richest event ($120,000) on the Legends Tour (50 and over) is booming - on and off the course.

Volunteers are swarming to be involved, cracking the three-figure mark after 90 supported last year's event.

Tease was quizzed if there's a tournament in the State which has gathered similar support.

"No, we get about 65-70 for the men's (NSW) Open," he said.

"Local community clubs see it as their moment to shine, so they all join in."

Club captain and keen golfer Michael Lane and his wife Veronica - a non-golfer - coordinate the volunteers, who range from mid-teens to late 80s and come from all categories, such as ladies, veterans, other clubs etc.

"It's something the club's done quite well over the last few years, really bringing those membership groups together," Lane said.

"It's a club where the club champion will play in a mixed group with the ladies and the veterans.

"We're well past the days of ladies having their days and men their days, it's very much an open club environment."

The volunteers are ball spotters, live scorers and everything in between.

"It helps the event run smoothly, we're really fortunate the pros have been really complimentary about the event in the first two years," Lane said.

"They love coming back and they get well looked after as there's volunteers everywhere.

"Last year one of the fellows (Cade Webb) carried the scoreboard for Peter Senior's group and at the end of the round, Peter took him off to the practice area and gave him a private lesson, just to say thank you.

"They've gone back and forth (contacted each other) a number of times and Peter is so typical of the pros, he's such a gentleman and couldn't be nicer."