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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
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.
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The best analogy I can think of is, as residents we have a free "social membership". Lots of clubs "up North" offer that (not for free). It lets you use the club to dine have some drinks and then pay a lessor fee to golf than someone off the street.
After further thought, my point original post does not hold much water as anyone can walk in off the street and dine and drink, so you are correct about it being close to nothing.....