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Originally Posted by John_W
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?
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Hi John:
No my comments; albeit probably poorly stated were meant only to say that given the large population here the championship courses can get what they ask for in fees. My neighbors and I have been going off campus every years ever since I moved here because while they can well afford the price, refuse on principal to pay TV's fees. You also have probably come across some residents who simply refuse to play Palmer's because they charge more than other TV championships.
About two years after I moved here we played Black Bear. We ran into a village resident who was so opposed to TV championships fees he became a member of Black Bear and drove their everyday ...different strokes for ....
We all think differently and do not view this as right or wrong it just is
Riley Grove is a great course
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