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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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I also lived in MB for a bit....back when there were over 125 courses on the Grand Strand. People in TV love to say how immune they are to natural disasters (ie; hurricanes etc). SC and Myrtle Beach have historically always been in the path of many. The difference, those courses have been maintained and sustained each and every blow. It’s like playing on carpet there. I’ve brought up the MB comparison before on previous threads on this topic. Interesting their courses also share the El Niño weather patterns. Go figure!