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Old 10-01-2020, 08:40 AM
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Default I played on 10/30 and it is okay

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Originally Posted by waynet View Post
A total dog track. Do not play it period. It was our 6th choice. Fairways not cut greens at about a 5 speed rough very high to the point of losing golf balls. If they cared a real embarrassment to this community. So glad I didn;t have guests playing this piece of junk. One of the nines we played had been closed for a week! What did they do? Just tired of it all. Makes my decision to leave much easier. OK you Kool-Aid drinkers I'm ready for all the excuses.
The issue they are dealing with is excessive water on the course due to our rains. So a few holes we had to stay in the rough. I think this was why one nine was closed when you played. The higher rough is a feature, making the course a little bit harder, not a dog track. The fairways and greens had been cut we saw the grass clippings. The greens are slow, but nearly all the greens in the Villages are slow. There are several reasons a course does this, but it is mainly to make it easier to keep the greens alive on a course that gets lots of play. Yes, it would be nice to have faster greens. But the course is not as bad now as what you experienced.