You are correct with your assessment of Fenney putt and play. It is a disaster. From the landscaping around the holes, to the actual putting greens, the area has been severely neglected. The common thread throught the villages is that if they hire a landscape company with no knowledge of golf course maintanence, the course will suffer. Case in point are the four courses in the Lopez area. Amberwood, Oakleigh, Walnut Grove, and Briarwood. These courses are consistantly in very good condition, being maintained by the same company. They obviously know their business. The company that maintains the Churchill group has no clue, as do several other companies who maintain our other terrible executive courses. Anyone that golfs the exec's know which ones they are. Besides this post, I have talked directly to our newest Executive Course Supervisor. He had more excuses from too much shade to not enough shade, ground beetles and parasites etc... Building new courses of any kind is great, but maintaining them is where The Villages just does not care, or is completely ignorant. I do not think they are ignorant, so I guess that once we sign on the dotted line, we are on our own.
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