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Originally Posted by Rich42
I will leave the specifics of our problems to the experts, and I have no reason to disbelieve what they are currently saying. However, I will say again (already stated in previous threads) that the biggest problem on the Villages golf courses both championship and exec’ is the high level of play. Before moving to the villages, I retired to the Myrtle Beach area for 16 years at the time when they had over 100 golf courses. It was a hard and fast rule that no golf course allowed over 45,000 rounds in any given year to be played on it . Golf courses need time to recover. They cannot be played 365 days a year from morning till night and expect to be in good shape. It is just not possible. And unfortunately, the fact that the Villages continues to grow while reducing the rate at which new golf courses are built, our problems will only be exacerbated rather than improved in the future.
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Good points.
One thing that could be done, but as far as I know isn't, is to limit the number of rounds per player to one per day, and add maybe two minutes to the length of time between tee times. I know of people (snowbirds as well as year-round people) who think nothing of playing two or even three rounds per day, and especially during the winter months that is not only adding to heavier traffic but also limits tee times.