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Imagine showing up to your favourite course and finding more than 2,000 golfers waiting at the first tee.

It would be mayhem, right?

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That’s essentially what occurred online when, on a snowy Monday morning back in mid-March, Kananaskis Country Golf Course opened their tee-sheet for 2018, their long-awaited comeback season after being ravaged by flooding nearly five years ago.

With so many divot-diggers waiting to secure a time — or several — for this summer, their site slowed to a near-halt, with staff pressing pause for two hours so their techies and point-of-sale partner could address the issues.

“We expected busy. In fact, we expected really busy, but it even exceeded that,” said Darren Robinson, general manager of the 36-hole hangout in K-Country.

“We’d advised our partners how busy it was going to be and sort of tried to give them a sense of what that volume could look like, and they confessed after the fact that, ‘We know you told us it was going to be busy, and we heard you.… But we’ve never seen anything like this.’