Two women fall off 50-foot cliff on a golf course on Christmas Eve, found next day

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Two women fall off 50-foot cliff on a golf course on Christmas Eve, found next day

It’s probably not the way they wanted to spend their Christmas Eve.

Citrus Country Fire Rescue in Florida reported that two women were stranded overnight but found safely Christmas morning after they fell about 50 feet off a cliff at

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on Thursday in Lecanto, Florida, which is about 80 miles north of Tampa.

“This morning, Citrus County Fire Rescue responded to a challenging rescue after two women fell approximately 50 feet into a quarry on The Quarry Course near Hole 17 at ****** Diamond Ranch,” CCFR wrote in a post on

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. “The incident occurred on Christmas Day but went undiscovered until this morning.”

The 17th hole is well known for its sheer dropoffs. Holes 13 through 17 on the Tom Fazio design,

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, “play across and around the rims of two canyons up to 80 feet deep.”

Rescue crews found the women and pulled them out after they “executed a successful low-angle rescue.” They reported that the two women were stabilized and taken to a nearby hospital.

The Quarry course was opened in 1987 and held a sectional qualifier for the U.S. Open in 2012.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek:

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