[graciegirl]

I have been playing golf for over forty years and have played on a lot of courses over time.

Moving here after a hiatus for a few years due to illness was a huge change to the golf I was used to all of my life.

Like many golfers who moved here we belonged to a club for most of our lives and played golf on one course and we played eighteen hole golf only.

I played more seriously, belonged to a ladies league and we kept scores and turned them in for our handicap. I would play maybe three 18 hole rounds a week if I could work them in and play golf a couple of evenings a week with Sweetie and I going out for nine, not a foursome. I liked playing as a twosome. That isn't an option here.

The folks I played golf with played a lot of golf and played a lot of golf with me. I knew their usual game and they knew mine. We usually played in friendly competition in club events.

Golf here in The Villages is quite different in many ways and my game is much different, as I don't seem to get the same distance that I got from clubs twenty years ago... and perhaps my short game and putting are a little better.

I started this thead for veteran golfers to explain to wannabe folks considering the move here just how nine hole golf here is different than golf we left behind. I think championship golf is fairly similar. I don't play it anymore.

AND to ask how your game has changed as you get a little older.

I think.........I enjoy the golf here more. I am not sure why.