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Originally Posted by Steve
There was a big article in the Thursday (3/7/24) Villages Daily Sun making excuses for the lousy conditions of our golf courses. Well, the people who take care of those courses should take the short drive to Continental Country Club and ask them how they do it down there. Six members of my golf group played there yesterday and discovered the greens were impeccable, the fairways well grassed and the bunkers were raked and had very good sand in them. And their afternoon rate was just $34.95 + Tax, less than half the cost of most of The Villages courses. Same El Nino, same "too much rain", same "too much cloud cover". If CCC can do it why can't The Villages?
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The Pennbrooke Fairways course has great greens also. It is right next to The Villages Calusa course hole #7. Seems like they would have the same weather as us! The amount of play and inadequate maintenance are what really hurt our courses. At least now The Villages management are finally seeing that, and have said they will be taking better care of things and doing full course restorations more often (every 10 years instead of 20). But now we will suffer through multiple course closures. I guess it will be worth it though. Hopefully they will build more courses in the south more quickly too!