I feel your pain also, but it's not just the Villages. Now that the courses up North are open for the season I have noticed two things. First, all the courses rates have gone up by more than the so called inflation rate. Second, courses are closing. Two courses I have playing for many years are gone, one is going to be a solar farm and the other a residential housing development. A third course I really like to play is on the market (most likely to a real estate developer), and is not being properly maintained. It is a disturbing trend across the country, but a trend that I hope will be very slow to take place in the Villages due to the high population of older people who still highly value golf as a pastime.
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