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Originally Posted by kkingston57
Some good points but you still need a flack jacket. Most of the complaints/problems are on the greens. NO carts allowed on the greens. Have not done a survey but bet that 90% of the golf carts stay on the asphalt and/or concrete cart paths.
Though you might have suggested that the courses should not allow riding mowers on the greens. That will work but will cause a huge ruckus when labor costs sky rocket
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I understand that the greens are a huge problem. I've always been reliably informed, that many of the Executive Courses don't have USGA Spec greens, but are old fashioned, "push up" greens. Push up greens can work well for 50 years under some conditions, but not so much in the Executive golf environment of The Villages (it's tough enough to maintain USGA greens, here). When the courses with "push up" greens are renovated, I suspect most will get USGA type greens, which will work much better.
As for "riding mowers" on the greens ...
Hand mowing is obviously labor/cost intensive. That said, modern green mowers have a smaller impact on greens, than walking. Off the top of my head, I don't know the psi, but they're very light on their feet.