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I emailed Eric van Gorder who is the Director of Executive Golf maintenance asking what are the plans for new executive courses south of 466A. Here is his reply:

"I am usually not the one to find this information out from but looking over my notes from the Golf Administration Department there are an additional 6 executive courses planned south of 466A. Their names are as follows Sweet Gum, Mangrove, Palmetto, Sarasota, Volusia, and Escambia. I know there is one under construction now with the championship at Evans Prairie and you can see these along 466A. They are set to open I think one of the executive courses in the fall of 2012 (Palmetto) with the Evans Prairie Championship course but I cannot be 100% sure."

So if accurate while the number of residents is scheduled to increase by about 30%, the number of executive courses is only to increase by about 20%. And this relative deficiency of executive courses would be in the youngest area of the Villages where one might think there would be more need for them.