The Villages 27 nine hole executive courses are free to residents. Green fees on the executive courses are free to all residents, a trail fee applies if you wish to use your own cart on the executive courses. You can pay the annual trail fee or pay it per round. (You can also elect to pay the trail fee semi-annually.) This time of year, it isn't hard to get a tee-time on any of these courses.
http://www.golfthevillages.com/executive-golf/
Residents are also
members of the nine country club facilities. These courses are Hacienda Hills, Palmer Legends, Lopez Legacy, Glenview, Havana, Tiera Del Sol, Cane Gardens, Mallory Hill and Orange Blossom Hills. You can eat in their restaurants and play golf on their courses.
You pay to play each time you play on any of these courses and the trail fee is included in the price of playing. Here is a list of the current prices:
http://golfthevillages.com/images/summerRates.pdf
Now here's where it may be confusing. You can pay for a Championship Priority Golf Membership enhancement to your free resident membership. It allows you priority access to golf tee times for the Championship Courses, reduced greens fees, eligibility in country club tournaments etc. PLUS it entitles you to use all of the country club pools, spas and tennis at Hacienda Hills Country Club. You can choose to pay this enhancement for all country clubs or pick one, two, three or four clubs to pay this enhancement.
You can play (for a greens fee) any of the Championship Courses without an type of extra membership enhancement fee.
Just like the executive golf courses that are free and open to all residents without any type of "enhancement" each area of TV has community pools, tennis courts and every sort of rec facility you can imagine. All free. BUT if you want to use the Country Club pools and facilities, you must pay the enhancement membership fee.
http://www.golfthevillages.com/tee-times/membership.asp
Does that help??