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Originally Posted by glencus
This Thread is not a referendum on The Villages. It's about Golf Course Conditions. Your comments in that aspect of your response are exactly the reasons given by Golf Course Administrators to get complainers off their backs. This gets to the heart of the issue that most Villagers accept these conditions because they do not know any better.
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Thank you. I allowed a recent grievance to get the best of me. I will try to do better.
I have played a few courses here and about in my 40 some years of golfing. All I can say is the price is right and it is pretty amazing and wonderful to take your golf cart to all these halfway nice courses as you grow older and your game decays and it is nice to keep your greenbacks in the bank too for when they might need to take care of you 'round the clock.
It isn't golf as many of us knew it and it isn't like back home in many of the clubs some of us belonged to where they would upgrade the course and dock you thousands of dollars on top of the thousand dollar a month membership fee and the monthly restaurant charge even if you didn't eat and the cart fee and and playing with the same group all of the time, some of whom were unbearable. This was after some folks paid upwards of 50K to join, after being checked out thoroughly. Where everyone you knew also knew your handicap and where there was a dandy locker room and the clubs were on the cart waiting when you drove up... BUT....we still can go off campus and sojourn out to Pebble Beach, it too is a municipal course and we can pay them close to 600 bucks to play a round. The deer and the wind and the vistas are magnificent, the greens are like velvet and the rough is to be avoided and the fairways look like top grade Bigelow carpet. It is surrounded by some wonderful homes on 17 mile drive that are "point" houses and some of them are very
not kept up but although windy there in Carmel it isn't freezing cold wind like at St. Andrews and well you know....
What do I know? I am told I am a shill for the developers.
I think I'm mad.