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Originally Posted by ajbrown
Seems making OB a priority member only club would break the main marketing promise: The Villages is the only place in the world where you can play golf free for the rest of your life on all of our executive courses. As a resident, you’ll also receive free lifetime membership in all of our country clubs including The Villages’ Palmer Legends and Nancy Lopez Legacy country clubs… As member I would sure hope I can go inside for a beer.
As far as Katie Bells? My memory says there was a time when the upstairs dining room was only for priority members and their guests. This would have been back when visiting my Dad in say 2002'ish. Anyone else remember that? |
We do have lifetime membership in all the country clubs. Priority membership is an add on. I don't really know exactly what that means, but my understanding is that you get preferred tee times and a few other perks.
What surprises me down here is that up north, when you join a country club or golf club, you may play unlimited golf at no additional fee. The same can be said for many private and semi private clubs here in Florida outside of the Villages. The idea of belonging to a club and having to pay a green fee is foreign to me.
Now some clubs that have multiple activities have a fee for joining each of those activities. You pay dues to join the club and then you pay an annual fee to use the pool, play golf, tennis, lawn bowling or whatever. The so called called "country clubs" in The Villages are really just daily fee public golf courses. One does not have to be a member to play them so what is a membership worth? It's pretty easy for The Villages to advertise that we all have lifetime memberships to their "country clubs" when that membership consists of nothing.