If you are a confident chipper great, a lot of people are. But from what I have seen so far there are not that many required chip shots on the few villages courses I have played.
There are quite a few short pitches needed to clear bunkers or come up an embankment. But the aprons are fairly closely mown. You can easily putt though them, or chip-putt, or use a putting motion with the toe of a mid iron. The ball rolls fairly true, it doesn't really sink hopelessly into the Bermuda like most courses. The greens are so slow that the ball doesn't really roll out. I played Shallow Creek yesterday and didn't have one real chip shot.
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