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Old 06-12-2021, 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Hape2Bhr View Post
As a snowbird I have/had the 6 month Priority Membership this year. I may have played Executive Courses 3, possibly 4 times; and walked every time. Given the option to not pay the trail fee with the PM, I would certainly take that option.
my situation exactly. Before reading this thread, I didn't know the mechanism by which my Priority Membership allowed me to avoid trail fees, as I understood the executive courses and the championship courses to owned by different entities. Now it's clear to me how it works.

I'm OK either way, but yeah, like you , I am not using nearly the dollar amount of my priority membership that goes to trail fees.
I strongly suspect that the trail fees go to more than just maintaining cart paths, and should the money from the Priority Memberships disappear, not only will trail fees go up, but so would amenity fees, to find a way to bridge the gap.