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Old 04-03-2021, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by vintageogauge View Post
We bought our home in Fenney in May of 2017 and our sales agent, Beth Pope, never talked about a championship course being built down here, she only commented on amenities that were public and on the horizon. I doubt that there were a large percentage of those buying here in the early years that bought due to a promise of championship golf as it was available to us at all of the existing courses and we didn't have to worry about having a golf car to use. Those that have been playing at the existing courses for the last ten or 20 years are probably more anxious to have new courses built than those that reside south of 44.
There is/was two sides to that coin. Gary Morse's vow of stopping at RT44 was made not to new Fenny owners but to existing people living in TV. Growth was happening so fast we existing homeowners experienced first hand more and more difficulty getting Tee times. TV's build policy before Fenny was build golf courses first then the neighborhoods. The amenity fees didn't decrease with less available tee times. By not building championship courses south of RT44 taxed the courses north of there. It was not a we / they thing. Both sides did not benefit from this excessive delay of building these courses.