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Originally Posted by palmers
I walked around the "new and improved" Silver Lake course last week. I was very disappointed in what I saw. With the budget they had to work with I expected to see some real improvements. The cart paths are still bad. They didn't do anything to improve the two bad holes, #2 & #8. All they needed to do was to put in a couple new tee boxes. It looked like they still have a couple drainage issues. Maybe they are going to do more in the next couple weeks but as of now I would say it looks like we got ripped off.
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They hardly ever do anything when they "improve" golf courses. Mostly they just take up the turf and re-sod which is what it looks like they've done to Silver Lake. It also appears that they added a couple of beautification sandy areas which have nothing to do with golf.
A few years back I saw piles of sod over there and was hoping that they'd do something with the second fairway. Instead, they laid all the sod up against the cart paths.
It's a shame but it's not a very good layout and it has some terrible holes (Number two might be the worst hole I've ever seen in my life.) and it's always been in terrible condition. Although I will say that at one point it had the best greens in The Villages.
They had an opportunity to make it a decent little golf course but all they did was waste money.