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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
I would tend to doubt it. They've built 13 championship golf courses and only three have practice facilities. In addition there is the free standing range at Sarasota. The practice facilities are not very good by today's standards. I'd love to see more short game and bunker practice facilities. They've recently taken out a practice bunker at Glenview and the ones at Palmer and Lopez are a joke.
They evidently believe that The Villages golfers are not interested in practicing.
The American Legion / Lion's Club Range on Rolling Acres is as good as any in The Villages except that there is no grass.
I'd love to see someone build a state of the art facility.
Something like this would be nice. 
or even this.
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They did make changes to the practice bunker at Lopez but it's still a too confined area. The chipping green across from Lopez is to compact. I've found the practice bunkers, chipping and putting greens at Sarasota to be the better choice. It's a haul but worth it. I wish they had built one up near the new First Responder's rec center but went with a putt putt deal.