My /guess/ as to why the higher extra charge for a cart here:
This is the only golf cart community among the bunch mentioned so far in this thread. There are people - whether we like to acknowledge it or not, who will take a cart out - and simply not return it. Or take it and assume they can use it all day, and use it to go to lunch in the squares, or go shopping, or stop home to shower before returning to the club for drinks.
They will do this, because they think they're entitled, that the rules don't apply to them. If you think that doesn't happen, think again. It happens. Weekly, if not daily.
To offset the cost of needing extra carts, to accommodate the entitlement of the few who take those carts for many hours after they've left the golf course, SOMEONE has to pay extra. Since the ONLY people who do this, are people who - take the golf carts and don't use their own, then they are the ones who will have to foot the bill.
If the charge for using their golf carts is unacceptable, don't use them. This is a golf cart community. It's assumed either you or the person you're golfing with (or each of you) has your own golf cart. The country clubs are available for non-residents, who can't bring their own golf cart. That means they have that cart until they return it. So if they're going to pay for it, they might as well take it off the course and go to the squares for lunch. Or stop at CVS to pick up their husband's prescription. Or visit a friend who lives here. Etc. etc.
They're not supposed to - but they do. And so, the charge.
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