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Old 02-15-2017, 02:41 PM
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I walked a course with a guy who has lived here some 6 years and unsolicited he said that TV is so overcrowded that its not fun anymore . TV is overcrowded and so certainly TV is right in that they have a captive group large enough to make demands
Was that an executive course? I played Palmer Riley Grove nine last Friday in a threesome in 1-1/2 hours, teetime was 1:31pm and we finished at 3:00pm. This is the middle of the highest season and there wasn't anybody in front us and nobody behind us ever within a hole. The only part that wasn't fun was paying $30 to play 9 holes.

This is just the kind of situation I wrote about in my earlier post. There is a slight burst of golfers at 1:30, because that's the earliest a nine hole player can tee off. The rest of the afternoon the course is dead. If they charged $38 for 18 holes after 11am, I'm sure the place would be much busier, and as someone pointed out earlier, they don't even have to provide us a cart. So what really is it costing them for us to be out there?