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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Definition of insanity - Refusing to accept the reality that golfing etiquette expected at high end Championship golf courses will never be the norm at The Villages Executive courses. The best way for one to truly enjoy the Executives is to go with the flow and accept the fact that they are what they are, amateur hour at its best.
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Precisely.
Other than a few outings on the championship courses, my wife and I play the executive courses exclusively. It is a mixed bag to say the least: some good golfers, many not-so-good and even some raw beginners. Of course they're expected to know the basics (which are posted at every starter shack) but I don't get my undies in a bundle if there are infractions here and there. I've seen an individual player with a slow foursome in front of him playing two balls: (no problem as he wasn't slowing play down), some horseplay (we were in a foursome with two guys whose idea of fun was to try to disrupt the other when putting--they didn't do it with us so, again, no problem), heard the occasional utterance of a curse word or two--sometimes quite loud, etc. etc. I've only said something to other players twice: once to ask the foursome in front of us to move ahead when they decided to park their carts under a tree adjacent to a green on Chula Vista to wait out a minor shower and not moving when it was over, and once when a player had his pull cart on the green. It was cordial both times, and both thanked me.
I can understand strict adherence to a code of conduct when playing a championship course. For the most part only serious golfers play on them, in my experience. But the people on the executive courses are there to have fun.