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Old 12-26-2015, 06:44 AM
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Originally Posted by kcrazorbackfan View Post
I love free and I love golf, but with what I've heard about this event, I swore to my wife this week that I wasn't going to partake in it, since I get to play at half-price anyway, but a few of the neighbors talked me into playing. We showed up at Bonifay around 9 and teed off at 10:10; play was sooooooo sloooooooow; only got 15 holes in by 2pm and the others had to leave. The starter said everyone has to experience it at least once; mine was today and no more. I fixed so many ball marks and went thru 3 bottles of sand; it's a damn shame that the privileged, the entitled or the just plain lazy can't fix their ball marks, sand their divots and rake the bunkers.
What program allows half price? If you have a priority membership it is $15 less than a resident price at this time a year. Plus you already paid for the priority pass. That's a long ways away from half price. Also how could play be soooooo slooooooooow. Normal pace of play on Bonifay is 4 hours 17 minutes. Given your statistics are accurate you were going to be 18 minutes off the pace. On a free day I think that's reasonable. I played Orange Blossom in 4 hours even.