As a former stockholder (part owner) in a golf course in another state I can tell you our management feelings of why we picked up broken and discarded tees all day long. I suspect this is exactly why ( in my opinion) that the Villages does so also. Broken or discarded tees are like garbage. We picked up our tees all day long during play to keep the tee areas looking nice. We also had many comments about how nice our tee areas looked compared to other golf courses in our area. Our neighboring courses say it requires too much time and manpower to do this continually all day long. I have visited the Villages numerous times and am considering moving there someday. One of the things we enjoyed was how clean the areas on the sides of the roads, public areas etc were. Free of garbage almost all the time. Same goes for the tee box res. when we first played in the Villages I was pleased to see the Ambassadors picking up broken and discarded tees all day long. MI appreciate the clean look of the tee areas just like I enjoy a lack of trash on the streets and sides of the roads etc. my hats is off to the Anbassadors for whatever reason they do it. Now I will say that for two years we kept the little tee collection boxes on our tee for broken tees, but usually people dumped them out when they needed a broken tee and now we had the same problem. We removed them after a few years and now most of our usual players have gotten into the practice of picking up their broken tees without us having to do much. Just pick up your used or broken tees as you play, put them in your pocket, and you should have more than enough broken tees to play all day long. Of course this is just my opinion, but I thought I'd let you know the reasoning behind one former golf management position on the reasoning from a management perspective. It jut looks much nicer, and that's one of the great things I enjoy about the Villages. I suspect there are others that feel the same.
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