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Old 12-22-2020, 09:56 AM
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Usually it's free golf on Christmas Day. You just show up at one of the starter shacks and they'll place you in order. This will be my tenth Christmas in TV, and I've only golfed once on Christmas Day, the first year. It was in 2011 and Bonifay had just opened and I showed up at 7am and was #38, some had gotten there at 5am. Fortunately I was a single and within ten minutes they asked if there was any singles and I was paired with another golfer and was on my way by 7:30, initially they said I would probably tee off about 10am. You could play 9 or 18 holes, I was playing 18, some people jumped over to the starter shack to play 9 because there was no line.

I found out on my way back home, when I went by the starter about 1pm there was only about two golfers waiting. I'm an afternoon golfer and actually that's the best time to show up. I drove right by Turtle Mound and Sand Hill Executives and there was hardly anyone there. Everyone makes the mistake of thinking to show up early, when it's better to be late.

Same thing this year, the 3 guys I normally play with are all busy on Christmas Day, so were playing on Saturday instead. They'll probably announce it in the Daily Sun soon and tell you what starter shack to report to at each championship course.