In Miami in March, he said, he began a match at half-past midnight.
Tempers appeared to have settled by the time play began – a match in which things could scarcely have started better for the visitors.
With Sunderland fielding nine of the men who started against Manchester United, while nine of Fulham's players had not begun a match since New Year's Day, it seemed probable that the visitors would tire.
His full debut came in the League Cup defeat by Leyton Orient last August and after 10 appearances from the bench in the league, Grealish began a match for the first time against QPR.
If a player begins a match having declared a handicap higher than that to which he is entitled and this affects the number of strokes given or received, he is disqualified; otherwise, the player must play off the declared handicap.
When they begin a match by scoring eight unanswered goals, as they did against Burbank in the opening round of the Pacific League Tournament at Burbank on Tuesday, it's all but in the books by the first quarter.
With Luis Suárez beginning a 10-match ban for biting, Liverpool romped, 6-0, in the Premier League for Newcastle's worst home loss since 1925.
As Trinity prepares for its 10th straight national title defense this weekend, beginning with a match against Dartmouth on Friday, the Bantams sit poised for their 200th consecutive victory.
Outside, two groups of hawkers began a shouting match over "the rules of the pavement".
Though the twins began a wrestling match, and their sister suspected the onset of a headache, somehow the rehearsal began.
