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Originally Posted by FG111
What advantage is the golf courses for the average Villager who doesn't play golf ?
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huge advantage of all the golf courses is the role they (along with all the water retention ponds) play in water management. If the courses were all replaced with houses and streets, The Villages would flood like
crazy during every hurricane that passed over or nearby. Before a forecasted hurricane happens, you'll see lots of the course closed and getting watered like crazy from water pumped out of retention ponds, nearly emptying many of those ponds. That water soaks down through all that grass and turf and mostly back down into the aquifer. When the major rains come, so much water hits at once that it can't soak in and runs off into lower areas. Golf courses are generally lower than streets and houses here and water retention ponds are lower yet so you'll see some really, really full ponds after a day or so. Then those will go down with evaporation and normal levels of watering. If we didn't have golf courses, we'd have to have essentially the same areas left as empty fields. At least now, those fields are prettied up, maintained and played on by folks who are afflicted with the golfing disease (and I count myself among them).