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Originally Posted by rubicon
I;m late to this thread.
One could buy priority meaning they gain priority for tee times. However for that to work effectively means that your entire foursome be priority because once you reduce to three priority in a foursome two and then one well one priority in a foursome doesn't gt you much. You do get a reduce rate with priority. However with such an investment you have to play a lot of golf on championship courses to even break even.
I had priority for 6 years at roughly $800 per year meaning I paid $4800. do you know how many rounds of golf that would be at outside courses where I could secure the tee time I wanted and they would throw in a cart.
The Villages Championship courses are open to the public and hence public. Villages residents get a little bit of a break on fees and should since they invested a lot to reside here. Keep in mind a residents provides his/her own cart. Rentals last I heard were $10 for 18 holes
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A little disagreement on this
$800 sounds like the previous 12 club, couple rate, which is now 925
Besides priority tee times, which does have diminishing returns IF you're signing up as a foursome with some non-priority golfers, but still an advantage, you get $5 off summer, $10 off fall, and $15 off winter rates for a year round average of $9.60. Therefore 1 person playing 2x/week or 2 people playing 1x/week breaks you even
If you get a good deal on outside courses, say year-round average of $30 with cart, that's 16 rounds in 6 years for your $4800, or 27 rounds/year one person, 13.5 rounds 2 people. Minus the travel time and cost of gas.
With 12 championship courses at TV, 10 of which have 27 holes, so the equivalent of 17 courses, there would be some travel time to the 17 nearest outside courses of equal quality
And while "the public" can play, if they can get a tee time, they cannot play on equal terms--no reserved tee times, no discount, no pool, no tennis----so the courses at TV are semi-private by every definition in the book, not "public"