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Originally Posted by alwann
Don't hold your breath. Today I played swamp golf, thanks to multimodal irrigation system spilling onto most of the cart paths. Many of the fairways on Killdeer/Osprey should have been cart path-only. They weren't and they were getting gouged. On a day like today, I didn't wonder about green speed. I wondered if intelligent life exists in Villages Golf Management.
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It's not intelligent life in golf management that is the problem. It is intelligent life and concern by the golfers themselves who have to be told to stay on the cart path when the area is obviously wet, and repeatedly to fix their divots and ball marks and to return rakes fully to the sand trap that are the problem. Same goes for all other golf course conditions. Just sit and watch. You'll see golfers leave the cart path immediately from the tee-box to drive to their ball rather than following the 90 degree rule to reduce traffic in the fairways and golfers who take a nice divot on their second shot only to climb into their cart parked right beside the ball with a full sand bottle and take off for their next shot. You'll watch players with and without CAP cards pull right up to the greens or drive between the greens and sand trap to get to their ball where they take another divot and leave it for someone else to fill. Ambassadors and maintenance can only do so much to clean up after those golfers who do not care about the next person and leave the course battered and bruised when they are done. If everyone would follow the old rule prevalent in camping to leave your site as though you were never there when they play golf you would get your pristine greens and fairways and maintenance could spend their time improving rather than fixing the course. Just sayin!