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Old 05-06-2013, 05:55 AM
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Sooooo different than our private club in NC.....I played the same 18 holes with the same girls 3 times a week, ladies day was a MUCH smaller group of girls, LOTS of fussing over NOTHING back in NC...Played tournament golf 2 or 3 times a month at some of the most beautiful courses (Biltmore Forest, Champions Hills, Cliffs (3) to name a few) I belonged to Western Carolina Womens Golf Assoc. and we played for $35, which included golf, prizes and lunch (kinda miss that!)....My handicap has gone up since I've been in the Villages....I was a 6, now a 10 (age I'm sure has a LOT to do with change)....Most of the girls walked....Never had an opportunity to play golf with 3 men and this happens all the time in TV which is great fun...Rules of golf are rather loose on executive courses here in TV, which is OK by me, I'm not playing against the golfers, just the golf course (Of course, if it is a tournament than rules should apply)...In NC we lived on golf course but they did not allow private golf carts and in TV we take our golf cart everywhere!...Yea!..Mimosa Hills was a typical Donald Ross course with lots of traps, only one water hazard and lots of hills, different in TV...Most courses are pretty flat, lots of hazards with hazardous critters (gators, snakes) in TV, courses are beautifully manicured with wonderful landscaping....Some of par 4's fairways on execs. are a little rough thou!