[Indy-Guy]

The November issue of The Villages Magazine was in today's paper. If you are interested in golf in The Villages this one is for you. It is titled Golf 2010 Special edition.

Below are just a few of the many things that I found interesting in this issue.

1. First major article is titled Driving Towards 621 (That is the number of holes The Villages will have at completion)

Bonifay is under construction and has a planned opening in fall 2011.

Counting Bonifay there will be 3 more 27 hole country club courses and 6 executive courses South of 466A.

There were 2.3 million rounds of golf played in The Villages in 2009. It is my understanding that if you play 18 holes of championship golf that is counted as 2 rounds.

2. The second major article is about Ken Ezell the designer of the courses in The Villages.

There will be 135 holes of golf built south of 466A. On that 135 holes there will be planted 9,500 trees, 29,000 shrubs, 240,000 clumps of native grass and 1,400,000 other plants.

Bobifay nines are named Pensacola, Destin and Walton the name of cities in the Florida panhandle. The other two championship courses will be named Evans Prairie and Belle Glade.

Evans Prarie will be a flat more traditional Florida golf course and Belle Glade will be built along a network of waterways and will be like playing golf in Venice, Italy.


Again this issue is loaded with Villages golf information. I just thought I would share a few things with you. Perhaps others will add what they found interesting.

For those of you who don't get this magazine it will be available on the November Villages V-mail.